Monday, December 7, 2009

Caring is the New Sarcasm- Simon Pericich

"Caring is the new Sarcasm"
Simon Pericich
Block Projects
3 December - 23 December 2009

The title and nuances in the spelling give the best, most accurate view into the concept behind the work in the exhibition. Within the title, “caring is the new sarcasm”, the ‘c’ in ‘caring’, and the ‘s’ and second ‘a’ in ‘sarcasm’, are replaced with a copyright symbol, a dollar sign and a ringed anarchy symbol respectively.

The ‘caring’ mentioned in the title is that of a social nature, a sense of social responsibility, usually left on the shoulders of the protesters and anarchists working at cafes, living in share houses and completing arts and left wing politics degrees, but Pericich, using only the title, proposes that these traditionally extremist viewpoints of equality and justice are not only part of the norm, but a part of a copyrighted and profit making system: Che Guevara is an icon of fashion, stencil and graffiti artists are popular commercial money makers, water wise and recycling are everyday facets as opposed to 10 years ago, every party in today’s political arena has a pro-environmental agenda (whether they follow through with it is a different story).

Pericichs prints in the exhibition take community enagement and education of social injustice and responsibility to a whole different level, beyond the traditional propaganda flyers handed out by activists. The large editioned woodcuts are for mass education on the construction and use of tools and structures to be used by protesters and demonstrators. The social conscience and anarchist, renegade knowledge are now purchasable commodities. Available to all. Breaking down the exclusivity of the radical and unfortunately undermining the original passion of revolution.

What was once seen as fringe ideals is now widely accepted, so much so that it survives as a cliché, a parody of itself. Even terrorism is becoming cool: Osama is one of the most watched video bloggers on the planet; whenever he makes a video it doesn’t get uploaded to youtube but gets circulated worldwide by news networks. The most popular videogame at the moment is also the one most fraught with moral ambiguity in the fact that the player can play either a member of the military or an armed terrorist and in cases there’s opportunity to kill unarmed civilians. Capitalization has upped the ante and just made the extreme, a little bit more so. Or less. It depends on how profitable it’ll be.

12 comments:

Dida said...

Hi Ace!

Great blog! It's nice to see that more people pay attention to the Ari's and write about what's going on there.

I'd like to extend an invitation to my show at Bus Gallery (Level 1, 117 Little Lonsdale Street), For Illusion Isn't The Opposite Of Reality, that opens January 19th 6-8pm and runs until February 5th.

It is a cross disciplinary exhibition that explores traditions of storytelling and the construction of borderlands that embody both reality and fantasy through performed photography, sculpture and installation.

I'm a norwegian artist living in Melbourne and this will be my first solo show.

Best regards,
Dida Sundet

www.didasundet.com

Becky Harkins-Cross said...

Hi Ace,

I'm currently doing PR for a show coming up at Seventh later this month - The Tourists by David Mutch. Would love for you to check it out, and consider writing something on it for Dead Hare.

My email add is rharcross@gmail.com. Please shoot me through your email address, and I'll forward on the press release/images.

Cheers,
Becky

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