Dumbo Arts Center presents Robby Herbst: New Pyramids for the Capitalist System
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Photo: Lisa Anne Auerbach |
New Pyramids for the Capitalist System
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Info
Exhibition Opening:
Feb. 10, 2012 6PM-9PM Exhibition Dates:
February 10 - April 1, 2012
Contact
gallery@dumboartscenter.org
Dumbo Arts Center
+1 718-694-0831
Address
http://www.dumboartscenter.org/HerbstPyramid.html
Dumbo Arts Center (DAC)
111 Front Street, Suite 212
Brooklyn, NY 11201
USA
Dumbo Arts Center is pleased to present 'New Pyramids For the Capitalist System,' an exhibition by Robby Herbst. 'New Pyramids For The Capitalist System' explores acrobatics, class, bodies and interpersonal dynamics through a series of large-scale drawings, installations, and performances of human pyramids. The project was inspired by Herbst's grandfather's photos (a collection of beach and socialist acrobats) and a 1911 diagram produced by Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) called 'Pyramid for the Capitalist System.'
At sites associated with Occupy LA Herbst and a group of amateur, costumed, acrobats enacted the IWW diagram by creating human pyramids. Acrobats dressed as workers, managers, law enforcement, clergy and capitalists. This exhibition focuses on social dynamics and the efforts to memorialize the actions highlighted in the pyramid performances. Drawings and sculpture will examine the spatial and political implications of what it means to bear the weight of this classed system.
