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Custom Car Commandos

Lars Mathisen, Nancy Davenport, Alex Villar, Angie Waller, Dexter Sinister, Liam Gillick
Curated by Sandra Skurvida

Davenport_final%20inspection_144_144Custom Car Commandos reflects the perceptions of the American industrial moment by interrelating the auto industry and the image industry. Kenneth Anger’s Kustom Kar Kommandos of 1965 provides an impetus for this rerun of cult imagery. Artist Liam Gillick’s research into the concept of the “experimental factory” charts the conceptual trajectory of the exhibition (presented in the closing lecture). Nancy Davenport, Lars Mathisen, Alex Villar, and Angie Waller address various aspects of car culture in their video works. These works, dependent on the same conditions as current social, economic, and political phenomena, approach social transparency through artistic opacity.

Custom Car Commandos is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts, a State Agency; DaNY Arts; and the Danish Arts Agency.