- Venue
- g39
- Starts
- Wednesday, November 18, 2009
- Ends
- Saturday, December 5, 2009
- Address
- 39 Wyndham Arcade, Mill Lane, Cardiff CF10 1FH
- Location
- Wales
G39 invites the acclaimed Cardiff based artist Rabab Ghazoul to continue If…., a programme of exhibitions giving artists and curators opportunites to show new work to a new audience. Combining text, film and altered objects, Rabab often creates installations that call into question the values and hierarchies of society. For If…. Rabab will reinterpret and restage, within Cardiff City Centre, the artist Oyvind Fahlstrom’s 1966 work Mao-Hope-March. This performance work, and the 16mm film which documents it, consisted of a pseudo-protest in which Fahlstrom and a group of his friends walk through the streets of New York carrying large placards bearing the photographs of Bob Hope and Mao-Tse-tung, whilst an interviewer recorded the responses of passers-by, and their answers to the question, ‘do you consider yourself to be happy?’ Rabab will invite people to recast notions of the political and cultural icon for the 21st century and reenact After Mao-Hope to gage the happiness of the people. For more information about the exhibition, or to organise a group visit please contact Sam Perry t: +44 (0)29 2025 5541 e: [email protected] or for press quality images visit our website www.g39.org
