It's Just Television
March 26, 2019, 16h @ rum46, Aarhus, Denmark
March 26 - April 9, 2019, Online, ACRETV
The Just Business Agency will interrupt normal programming to present It's Just Television, a television special featuring By Way of Today, CaylaMae, CaW Research Group, Stephanie Graham, Leslie Lawrence, Jesse Malmed, The MorphoTransverse Method, Nice Talk, Postmodern Talking and Lea Devon Sorrentino.
Becoming Baroness
Lea Devon Sorrentino
Becoming Baroness is an exploration of identity, class and status through the lens of the popular reality television series "The Real Housewives".
Buying In
Jesse Malmed
Literalizing the advertising industry’s parasitic relationship with the avant-garde, the middlemen have stepped away and canonical figures of experimental media pitch you directly.
It's About Time: By Way of Today Comes Clean on Soaps
By Way of Today
By Way of Today is an expanded soap opera guided by Cameron Gibson and Kyle Schlie.
CaylaMae
Produced for CaylaMae by Cayla Lockwood and Jordy Brazo.
CaylaMae offers affordable loans to pay for your choice of sandwich.
Guilt Savers
Created by Lea Devon Sorrentino//Shot by Samuel Johnson// Contribution from Lauren Klien
Guilt Savers is a service aesthetic project that assumes the persona of house flipping companies like “We Buy Ugly Houses”, a business that purchases homes from desperate sellers who need cash quickly. This commercial is an introduction to Guilt Savers, a company that will absolve white men of their guilt towards structural oppression without them having to lift a finger.
Since physical space is something humans decided has borders to occupy and own, sell and trade, why not Guilt? Guilt abolition is the newest commodity with high demand and unequal distribution. This market is a new frontier and Guilt Savers wants to be at the forefront of development.
America is known for its commodification of experiences and goods. Most consumerism focuses on filling a need or a desire but that line is blurred due to the mental relationship we have with consuming. What we can own and acquire becomes an outward manifestation of our worth, without an internal relief from societal expectation. Compound consumption with structural inequality and the chances of being able to clearly make autonomous decisions is almost impossible. The mental load of the consumer is constantly increasing, especially if you are a woman or part of a marginalized population.
Within Capitalism consuming is considered a representation of success. In this system white wealthy men maintain status and control because of their purchasing power. Guilt Savers highlight the hypocrisy to who has access to relief within a system that was constructed for a specific group of people.
The MorphoTransverse Method
DECIDE. COMMIT. THRIVE. The MorphoTransverse Method updates ancient health practices for the modern fitness world—all you need to do is be PRESENT. Together, we’ll turn your goals into results, and uncover your level of happiness and stability so that you can reach a superior state of existence
Nice Talk
Keff and Dan agents of decency, guardians of the kindness sphere, creators of Nice Talk. Daily meditations on Instagram @nicetalkshow
Postmodern Talking
Postmodern Talking ist die ultimative Unterhaltungs-Show gegen die ganze Familie. Inszeniert von sieben Performerinnen und Performer rund um Tollwut-Talker Franz-Xaver Franz, wurde Staffel Eins am Rundgang der Kunsthochule für Medien 2017 aufgezeichnet.
The Selected Black Experience Council
Stephanie Graham
The Selected Black Experience Council (SBE) is an exclusive organization invested in giving non-black allies the opportunity to engage in black culture.
Telling me not to try and seduce your dad is moralising and a kind of violence against me
Leslie Lawrence
A message from the non-systematic union for "telling me not to try and seduce your dad is moralising and a kind of violence against me".
What Do Artists Do All Day?
CaW Research Group
CaW was a research group founded in 2014, consisting of 9 recent BA Fine Art graduates from Central St Martins: exploring the proposition that fine art practice per se is a model for resilience (psychologically, socially and culturally). CaW’s activity was a critical evaluation of their experiences as they tried to sustain their practices in the wider world beyond university. CaW discussed, performed and documented the individual and collective experience of the practical, social and political strategies in which the artist has to undertake to survive. We proposed a system of resilience, of collaboration, entropy and pretense. Members included the artists Sophie Chapman, Sid Charity, Carolina Escobar Diaz, Angus Frost, Georgia Gendall, Bryony Hussey, Lou Macnamara, Laila Musawi and Andra Roduca.
You Need Help
Lea Devon Sorrentino
Do you have the feeling like something is wrong, missing, uncomfortable, moving to fast, moving to slow, overwhelming, awkward, misunderstood, kinda lonely, too crowded, out of control, too good to be true, out of reach, beneath you, above you, dried up, dumb, out smarting you, frustrating, confusing, obvious, a train wreck, too close to perfect, not perfect enough, kind of ugly, boring, over before it began, disheartening, less than what is appears, too good to be true, spoiling the mood, awful, sickening, broken, hard to love, kind of off or just the worst?Are you trying to find a way to start feeling like you are winning while you constantly lose? Great!You Need Help is a series of training videos aiming to get your life seemingly back on track!