Disaster Capitalist at Gallery HOMELAND

disaster with a lower-case “d”

This latest exhibition at Gallery HOMELAND (2505 SE 11th) plays off the term Naomi Klein’s gives to companies that have learned to profit from disaster in her book, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism in which she argues that hard core free marketers take advantage of (or possibly contribute to) economic shock following disaster or upheaval to advance free market policies around the world (to their benefit, of course).

Timely read as we think about How We Got Here and What To Do about this mess we’re in. But this exhibition title is a case of a loose borrowing of a couple of words rather than an investigation of a political-economic phenomenon. Artists Gordon Barnes and Mandee Schroer, according to the exhibition statement, take the words very much at face value, literally capitalizing on lower-case “disasters” they experience in the studio, “as a means of creating.”

The show opens tonight, February 6, at Gallery HOMELAND with a reception beginning at 6 PM.

POSTED: February 7th, 2009 | AUTHOR: lisa | FILED UNDER: art | TAGS: art | No Comments »

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