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Fantastic Nobodies »Operation Shitstorm«
Opening: fri., 11.07.2008, 7 pm
Exhibition: 11.07 – 08.08.2008
Opening hours: tue. – sat. 2 pm – 7 pm
Fantastic Nobodies »Operation Shitstorm«
The Fantastic Nobodies was born in 2003 out of total disillusionment, when the White House increasingly employed Fascist-esque irrational propaganda and media coverage of the war in Iraq resembled B-slasher flicks. In midst of this political zeitgeist, the six founding artists Marc Grubstein, Brock Enright, Steve Johnson, Daniel Joseph, Chad Spicer and David Henry Brown Jr. collaborated to form the Fantastic Nobodies.
For their performances these characters infiltrate existing social situations and public events or create their own situations to set up a stage. These two approaches are used in order to create a total breakdown of existing social barriers between performer and audience. They are creating in this way temporary machines for human imagination.
Photography, polaroids and video record the actions. Oral tradition documents off-camera moments by creating legends that people who witness the actions pass on.
For Operation Shitstorm the Fantastic Nobodies once more invade Berlin on multiple fronts. The main stages will be brot.undspiele galerie in Gartenstr. 2 and a temporary show room in Brunnenstr. 56. Beside that, countless spontaneous performances and actions will happen all around the city and multiple collaborations with berlin artists and mucisians are in development.
Find more informations from on 01.06.08 at www. fantasticnobodies.com
Major events and projects
2004 .. Berlin, public performances all over Berlin
2004 .. »720« by Brock Enright with participation of the FN, Brooklyn NY
2004 .. Fantastic Nobodies Exhibtion, Brooklyn NY
2006 .. »Picnic«, Jack the Pelican Gallery, Brooklyn NY
2008 .. »Operation Shitstorm«, brot.undspiele galerie Berlin
Press
Village Voice (02.-08.08.2006), ART Best in Show, R.C. Baker
New York Times (28.07.2006)
Lowdown, #58, 2007
About us
Since 2005 brot.undspiele galerie berlin presents artists who‘s works bring unconventional impulses to art. Hereby we concentrate on contemporary art of the last 30 years. Mostly we are interested in the tension between the works of different generations of artists.
brot.undspiele galerie berlin
Gartenstr. 2
10115 Berlin
Tel.: +49 (0)30 94 88 53 90
info@brot.undspiele.com
http://brot.undspiele.com