CEPA Gallery : Conversation Pieces

Oliver Ressler — For a Completely Different Climate

For a Completely Different Climate is a new bus shelter project that will be placed in 6 Buffalo bus shelters during the exhibition. The poster juxtaposes two photographs – a protester and a young businessman – with the same descriptive ‘caption.' The descriptions "autonomous", "irresponsible", "does not reveal tactics" and "attacks people and property" are quite common descriptions of demonstrators in the mainstream media. While the artist Oliver Ressler disagrees with these categorizations of protesters by the media, with his poster he suggests these categorizations would be more applicable to the everyday behavior of business managers and captains of industry

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