[spectre] 'Anything You Consume I Consume Better'

[mike stubbs]

'Anything You Consume I Consume Better'

Following her desperate 'shopping trip' to New York in December 02 to try to
make things better, UK artist Ange Taggart of My Dads Strip Club is making a
return visit to the USA to coincide with America going to war.

  http://www.mydadsstripclub.com/duanereade.htm

This is part of a year long series of works she is producing which brings
together groups of artists who work in the commercial zone and comment on
the excesses of consumer culture in relation to the world order and global
economy.

Over the next 3 months she will be visiting major cities in the US and UK
connecting and communicating with artists to create, discuss and promote
work that feeds a culture of resistance.

In March and April 03 the activity will be focused in the USA where she is
joined by UK artist James Leadbitter - The Vacuum Cleaner and USA
artist/filmmaker  Andrew Lynn from Breathing Planet. They will be working
with  participants to perform in shops and on the streets of Chicago as part
of Version03 festival.

http://www.versionfest.org

They'll also be meeting up with the UK artist Denis Buckley in New York and
presenting work together at the heart of the financial district of New York.

The performances in Chicago and New York are backed up by a series of guest
lectures in galleries, arts schools, universities and artist projects to
present and discuss works by a group of UK/USA artists that create and
promote a culture of resistance.

10-17 March    New School University New York
27 March 03    Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
28 March 03    Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
  2 March 03    School of the Art Institute of Chicago
  5 April 03    1/Quarterly Gallery Chicago
  7 April 03    16Beavergroup New York
  9 April 03    Hunter College New York
10 April 03    Parsons School of Design New York
10 April 03    Drama Department New York University
10 April 03    Wooster Collective New York

In May the attention shifts to the UK when six USA artists fly over to team
up with UK artists to create the UK Stop Shopping Tour.

>From the 8-20 May 03 the group will be presenting and performing in UK city
centres in Derby, Nottingham, Newcastle and London.

Highlights will include street preaching, Sunday services followed by
congregation-shopping, advice on how to produce hazardous biological
chemical and radiological weapons from popular branded goods, consumption
awareness rituals and disfunctional shopping trips.  All this is backed up
by forums to engage and meet the artists as well as a series of lectures in
universities and arts establishments.

Artists include

Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping
Retroactive Logo Distribution
How and Why
Conglomco
Whirl-Mart
My Dads Strip Club
Richard Dedomanici
Jon Burgerman
Nato
Space Hijackers
The Vacuum Cleaner

This is not an exclusive event. The tour is a chance to reach out and meet
others and join together to develop possibilities for the future. Those
interested in supporting or joining us please get in contact:
me at mydadsstripclub.com

More information can be found at

http://www.mydadsstripclub.com

http://www.breathingplanet.net/tour