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Art & Anarchy Targets Vancouver 2010 Olympics

James David Morgan wrote this post at 12:07 pm on March 6th, 2009.

UPDATE: ArtThreat has full coverage of creative resistance to the 2010 Olympics.

Whither artists when the Olympics comes to town? Marginal though their role may be, many dedicate their efforts to facilitating the event, which is always billed as a development boom, no matter the actual – often negative – effects.

Recognizing the sociocultural impact of the mega-event, Vancouver’s Art & Anarchy seeks to expose the obscene underbelly of the Olympics, particularly this appropriation of cultural production to meet the event’s needs.

Fuck the Cultural Olympiad! Poster

These anti-authoritarian artists paint, perform, sculpt, carve, and sing “with the current of resistance against the 2010 Olympics,” describing their efforts as an open call to refuse participation:

Art & Anarchy, seeks to give any and all anti-authoritarian artists the space to show their work, without having to participate in the Institution of Art; The institution which commodifies ‘community art’ and transforms it into the aesthetic of social control.

Their opening takes place in the basement of the historic Tellier Towers (16 E. Hastings, Vancouver, BC), on Friday, March 13th at 8:00PM.  The exhibit is up until the 19th, showing between 3:00-8:00PM.

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