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Cally Spooner
SWEAT SHAME ETC.
Exhibiting performances that unfold across media—on film, in text, as objects, through sound, and as illustrated in drawings—Cally Spooner addresses the manners in which specific technological and financial conditions shape and organize life. With artworks that feature olive oil soap, WhatsApp messages, the voice of a business, the sound of a head cold, eroding support structures, a child development theorist, a poisoning, and an oversize graph, Spooner’s work crystallizes an absurd contemporary ecosystem in which entities run the risk of managing themselves and one another to death.
SWEAT SHAME ETC. surveys Spooner’s artistic output of the last ten years and includes a lecture by Spooner and newly commissioned essays by Laura McLean-Ferris, Pierre Bal-Blanc, and Lucrezia Calabrò Visconti.
Published by Swiss Institute and Lenz Press, 2024
Designed by Pacific
Hardcover
178 pages
8 ½ x 11 inches