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A tsunami wish-fulfillment sculpture of plastic bags embossed with faces challenges us to re-imagine the addictive quality and true cost of rampant consumerism.
DREAMCATCHER
dreamcatcher is part of Trending, 2020, a tsunami of plastic bags embossed with faces exploring the addictive quality and true cost of rampant consumerism. Plastic bags caught in flight, sport the Eternity emblem, and are embedded in resin for future use.
How do we debunk the delusional stories that more is better and celebrate de-growth?
Artists: Jen Lyons-Reid, Carl Kuddell
Trending: dreamcatcher, Coral St Artspace Victor Harbor. Photo: Johanis Lyons-Reid.
Bunker Rulz 3: Convert shock. Convenience is addictive. The Colony preaches TINA, there is no alternative to capitalism, and offers 24/7 distractions from creating sustainable, just social systems.
The supremacy of TINA has trapped us in a cocoon of instant consumption, convenient filter bubbles, disinformation and manufactured consent. When that bubble burst, how do we respond to the shock that our actions are destroying our world, causing oppression, extinction events, pandemics and climate catastrophes?
Shock is the sudden recognition that this is really happening. Shock brings disbelief and can make you question the nature of your reality. A shock to the system, a traumatic event, a face in the mirror that recognizes convenience got us hooked, that ignorance is not bliss.
How do we debunk the delusional stories that more is better? How is our privileged ignorance shaping our values and actions? How are our desires being manipulated? How do we speak back to these toxic trends, that zealously spread dis-information and alt-facts in the name of convenience?
How do we celebrate de-growth?
Trending, Lobethal Bushfire zone. Photo: Change Media
dreamcatchers
dreamcatchers are part of the Trending installation by Jen Lyons-Reid and Carl Kuddell. Fossilized plastic bags captured in resin are testaments to our addiction to fossil fuels. How do we debunk more is better and celebrate de-growth?
Trending. Bushfire zone. Photo: Change Media
Provocateurs corner: We want Trending to represent our tsunami of excess, the debris of our memories enshrined in plastic left behind by the coming storm. We increasingly live in a virtual world, yet every click, every view requires real bricks, mortar, energy, rare earth, plastic reality - a location on earth or in orbit. We need to see ourselves in the terrifying disasters of our making.
Trending: dreamcatcher and Lost Connection, Signal Point Gallery Goolwa, Jan 2021. Photo: Johanis Lyons-Reid
Creative concept, development and curators: Jen Lyons-Reid & Carl Kuddell
Sculpture: Jen Lyons-Reid, Carl Kuddell and Felix Weber
Provocations, text and cartoons: Jen Lyons-Reid & Carl Kuddell
Poetry: Poets tba
Photos: Change Media
Venues: Signal Point Gallery Goolwa. You can spot three of the fossilized dreamcatcher plastic bags on display at Coral St Artspace Victor Harbor until Nov 21, 2020.
