Dissent as an iPhone App
Débora Delmar, Daniel Keller, Saemundur Thor Helgason, Ella Plevin curated by Àngels Miralda
App Functionalities -
-Take a picture of the opposite wall.
-Following the instructions.
-Upload your image to DISSENT APP™.
-Every week the exhibition will change a bit.
-You can help us make the archive.
-Send in your image using the app forum.
-Participate and Engage.
The exhibition explores the relationship between critique as a process-based practice and the intersection between user-generated content, branding and advertising space, and behavioral psychology applied to economy.
The app is imagined as a multi-layered solution to the online exhibition format. It attempts to provide a participatory critical platform where audience members can engage with the exhibition. It exists online but via a physical space and series of events, overlapping the virtual platform with a physical space. It relies on user-generated content to complete the exhibition. The opening is used as a launch for the beginning of a project, at the end of which, all participants will be credited.
The title of the exhibition comes from Joshua Decter’s Art is a Problem. The exhibition also attempts to negotiate how artists stand within critique of the art system while remaining within it, and how its contradictions allow a unique space for doubt and dissent.
“Doubt and skepticism are infinitely marketable. It’s a truism that criticality and/or criticism is perpetually in crisis, and that dissent can be recuperated for other applications; eg. Dissent as an iPhone app.”
– Joshua Decter, Art is a Problem, JRP Ringier & Les Presses du Reel, 2013