The Yes Men, SurvivabBall, 2006
My Barbarian, "Time to Socialize," 2011
The Yes Men’s official-looking, fictitious Halliburton website, created by this “identity-correcting” duo, explains why fifteen U.S. corporations have conspired to create the SurvivaBall (2006), an inflatable spherical suit that allows humans to live comfortably, while corporations continue to neglect industrial practices that pollute water, exploit nonrenewable resources, engender algal blooms and facilitate global warming.
My Barbarian is a Los Angeles-based performance collective founded in 2000 by Malik Gaines, Jade Gordon and Alexandro Segade. The trio performs in site-specific plays, musical concerts, theatrical situations and produces video installations that play with the spectacular while engaging viewers critically. Their interdisciplinary projects explore and exhume cross-cultural mishaps and misadventures drawn from history, mythology, art and popular culture.
Wanting to draw people’s attention to the hypocrisy of democracy, freedom and openness, "Time to Socialize" features the trio dancing and singing a critique of American values with D.C.’s Washington Monument and in their midst.
My Barbarian is a Los Angeles-based performance collective founded in 2000 by Malik Gaines, Jade Gordon and Alexandro Segade. The trio performs in site-specific plays, musical concerts, theatrical situations and produces video installations that play with the spectacular while engaging viewers critically. Their interdisciplinary projects explore and exhume cross-cultural mishaps and misadventures drawn from history, mythology, art and popular culture.
Wanting to draw people’s attention to the hypocrisy of democracy, freedom and openness, "Time to Socialize" features the trio dancing and singing a critique of American values with D.C.’s Washington Monument and in their midst.
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