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IAN SVENONIUS IN LOS ANGELES

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Ian Svenonius—punk rock provocateur and author of Censorship Now!!—brings Escape-ism, his first solo project, to the Getty Center this weekend.

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IAN SVENONIUS—ESCAPE-ISM

Friday, August 17, after 6 pm, as part of Friday Flights

GETTY CENTER, 1200 Getty Center Drive, Brentwood, Los Angeles.

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Top: Ian Svenonius, photographed on April 16, 2017 at Comet Ping Pong in Washington, D.C., by Mike Maguire.

Below: Svenonius photographed by Karl Walter.

 

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FRANCES STARK AND IAN SVENONIUS

For the 2017 Whitney Biennial, Frances Stark created a series of paintings depicting enlarged pages of underlined passages from the title essay of CensorshipNow!!, by Ian Svenonius:

“Censor the news. Freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and other media liberties have become a grotesque and deadly parody of their promise….

“Censor the technology. Technological innovations determine much of what becomes art, media, communication, and therefore life. We must manacle these mediums for the sake of expression itself….Flat-screen television transforms every room and space into an outhouse….”

Last weekend at the Whitney, many viewers stood before Stark’s work enthralled. Others cherry-picked paragraphs out of contextreading Svenonius’ rhetorical examples of past misdeeds as endorsements—and missed one of Svenonius’ points: The dangers of making false comparisons between the past and the present to excuse what we do in the future.

FRANCES STARK—2017 WHITNEY BIENNIAL, through June 11.

WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART, 99 Gansevoort Street, New York City.

 

See Daniel Brockton’s Vanyaland interview with Svenonius:

vanyaland.com/ian-svenonius-censorship-now

Frances StarkIan F. Svenonius’s “Censorship Now” for the 2017 Whitney Biennial, Spread 3 of 8 (pp. 16-17) (the state, like a rampaging mob boss), 2017.
Image credit: Frances Stark and Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York.

Frances Stark, Ian F. Svenonius’s “Censorship Now” for the 2017 Whitney Biennial, Spread 3 of 8 (pp. 16-17) (the state, like a rampaging mob boss), 2017 Image credit: Frances Stark and Gavin Brown's enterprise, New York.