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'Fischerspooner: New Truth' Launch at VFILES

"'Fake it 'til you make it!' Casey Spooner would say. Did Fischerspooner successfully fake it, or make it? To this day, I'm still not sure," writes MoMA PS1 Director Klaus Biesenbach in the deluxe new Fischerspooner retrospective monograph New Truth. "What even separates truth from fiction in their world, and does it even matter?" Join Casey Spooner and Warren Fischer for the book launch this Tuesday night, October 28 at VFILES on Mercer Street in Soho. In addition to the book, VFILES will have a reissue of the classic Fischerspooner T-shirt featured in the book. Biesenbach concludes, "Like may other socially-engaged artists, Fischerspooner overturned the classic arrangement between artist, art object, and audience; artist turns into a glamorous army, art object becomes spectacular performance, and audiences becomes loyal fans. Through their utilization of readymade forms of entertainment, coupled with the insurgence of digital media and the Internet, Fischerspooner infiltrated the popular consciousness and manipulated the means of production to a degree, to the extent that they could put forth a utopian relationship between art and the social. My personal connection to Fischerspooner is emblematic of their effect—we were all brought into their world, enraptured, perplexed, and uncertain what were claims and what was fame."

Fischerspooner: New Truth

Fischerspooner: New Truth

Damiani
Hbk, 9.75 x 12 in. / 336 pgs / illustrated throughout.





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