The Sky Is Falling The Money’s All Gone
Lucky Pierre Free University
What would revolutionary clarity look like? Can the slow-moving revolution we’re living through be counteracted and won overthrowing the increasingly elaborate systems of fearmongering? Can making help sustain clarity in the face of fear?
(2015-2016, international collaborative seminar and exhibition ) The alarming consequences of unchecked growth, along natural, industrial, economic and political disasters threaten the patterns of ordinary life. How can artists respond to and work against despair amide the evidence of social fragility and collapse?
What would revolutionary clarity look like? Can the slow-moving revolution we’re living through be counteracted and won overthrowing the increasingly elaborate systems of fearmongering? Can making help sustain clarity in the face of fear?
Over a period of 8 weeks groups of artists in UK and US along with LPFU facilitators created responses to themes of environmental and economic fragility.
The piece was created in partnership with Abandon Normal Devices and Live Arts Development Agency, London. Mana Contemporary and Propellor Fund, Chicago.
Participants and LPFU facilitators: Holly Abney, Robin Bale, Jorge Jose Bolaños, Selina Bonelli, Ira Brand, Leo Dorsey, Hannah Gardiner, Justin Goh, Alyn Gwyndaf, Ashley Hollingshead, Bettina Johnson, Kevin Kkaempf, Michael Lahood, Anne Langford, Heather Lindahl, Lora Lode, Lynn Lu, Gwenn-aël Lynn, Ross Middleton, Martina Nehrling, Sara Nelson, Matthew Nicholas, Ian Nulty, Lara Oppenheimer, Katheryn Owens, Mary Paterson, Amaara Raheem, John Rich, Matthew Robinson, Emerson Sigman, Peter Smart, Bill Talsma, Michael Thomas, Verena van den Berg, Dolores Wilber, Moses Williams, Melanie Jame Wolf, Sara Zaltash, Mary Zerkel
