Curator's Talk: Denise Carvalho
Sunday, July 27th, 2008, 6 - 7 pm
Dumbo Arts Center, 30 Washington Street, Brooklyn

Joseph Bennett, still from video Untitled 2007 via Dumbo Arts Center

This Sunday at the Dumbo Arts Center curator Denise Carvalho will discuss her ongoing group show Holy Holes: Absolute Stalls. Aimed at investigating the ritualistic and borderline religious structure beneath contemporary consumerism, Holy Holes brings together work from artists Brent Wahl, Dylan Mortimer, Grady Gerbracht, Hadassa Goldvicht, Jenny Marketou, Joseph Bennett, Adriana Varella, Angela Freiberger, Gearóid Dolan, Tobaron Waxman, Kimberly Simpson, Karin Giusti, Marcia X, Meirav Leshem, Kwabena Slaughter, and Neil Beloufa. It is an open question whether a given absolute, religious or otherwise, takes spectacular place at all; whether consumer society represents a replacement for religious habits or their evolution. Certainly there are aspects of devotion and worship in the quotidian reception of both capital and the divine, but how then to explain the historical opposition between organized religion and the more decadent offerings of the culture industry? Some would argue its a spurious opposition to begin with, merely one niche market marketing itself in opposition to another, but if thats the case, how to locate any authentic opposition to anything anywhere? Insofar as opposition appears it had a mailing list. Free.