A New Use of the Self

A New Use of the Self is a group exhibition responding to the complex negotiation between the personal and political self within an increasingly commercialized terrain.

Opening Reception:
Friday, June 12th from 7 - 10pm

In Giorgio Agamben's writings, "a new use of the self" considers the biopolitical implications of the individual after the society of the spectacle, speculating on how through an emptying of identity, transformation is again made possible.

Featuring artists including Lyndon Barrois, Tom Holmes, Janez Jansa, Chelsea Knight, Sara Magenheimer and Chloe Seibert, among others, the exhibition features forms of pseudo-portraiture that is accompanied by a parallel erasure, reenactments of the self as one object among many, and emptied out sites of transformation.

PastThe LuminaryJune 12, 20152015

A New Use of the Self

A New Use of the Self

A New Use of the Self ​is a group exhibition ​respond​ing​ to the ​complex negotiation between the personal and political self within an increasingly commercialized terrain.

In Giorgio​ Agamben​'s writings​, "a new use of the self" ​considers the biopolitical implications of the individual after the society of the spectacle, speculating on how through an emptying of ​identity, transformation is again made possible.

A New Use of the Self is a group exhibition responding to the complex negotiation between the personal and political self within an increasingly commercialized terrain.

In Giorgio Agamben's writings, "a new use of the self" considers the biopolitical implications of the individual after the society of the spectacle, speculating on how through an emptying of identity, transformation is again made possible.