Tuesday, 2 November 2010

FACADES OF CRISIS (D/ NOR/ ARG, 2010) video/space installation GALERIE STADTGESTALT c/o Serge von Arx. Handjerystr. 71. tuesday 9/11/2010. 6pm to 9pm





FACADES OF CRISIS (LAB) GALERIE STADTGESTALT c/o Serge von Arx. Handjerystr. 71. 12159 Berlin

“There is no outside of the crisis.“, states the philosopher Nancy Fraser. FACADES OF CRISIS explores as video installation room the texture and consistency of architectural safety measurements that have boomed in Buenos Aires since the economical collapse in 2001. The rigidity of the metal constructions is confronted with the fragility of life and subjective perception of ten inhabitants of the city of Buenos Aires.