Pop Politics: A Reflection on Musical Culture

2 de Mayo Art Center, Madrid, will be hosting through April 21, 2013, a collective project made up of thirty four artists who revisit, from the contemporary language of visual arts, the politic forms of pop music and culture.

Pop politics: Activismos a 33 revoluciones, commissioned by Ivan Lopez Munuera, includes performances, videos, pictures, drawings, comics, installations, concerts, paintings, songs and documentaries. Attending this exhibit are assume vivid astro focus, Lorea Alfaro, Gabriel Acevedo Velarde, Bozidar Brazda, William Cordova, Red Caballo, June Crespo, Robert Crumb, Discoteca Flaming Star, Jeremy Deller & Nick Abrahams, Juan Pablo Echeverri, Ruth Ewan, Luke Fowler, Till Gerhard, Luis Jacob, Jeleton, Daniel Jacoby, Daniel Johnston, Daniel Llaria, Kalup Linzy, Jennie Livingston, Christian Marclay, Ryan McGinley, Momu & No Es, Dave Muller, Raymond Pettibon, Francesc Ruiz, Mickalene Thomas, Pepo Salazar, Aitor Saraiba, Azucena Vieites, Lyota Yagi, Zira02 e Icaro Zorbar.

Throughout the 20th and 21st centuries, a series of events related to pop music have taken place (or urban popular musical forms, including rock, punk, postpunk, disco, electro or hip-hop) that have completely diversified shared cultural systems, which have radically changed the different aesthetic, social, political, ideological and symbolic experiences, thus challenging established orders and transforming the way art is experienced. The showcase represents a vindication of elements that expose and dramatize the ruling power mechanisms of our days. That’s how concepts such as consumerism, intimate relations, varied forms of activism or the fan phenomenon get dissected in the exhibition.

The showcase is accompanied by a catalogue that includes ideas of curator Ivan Lopez Munuera, Kim Gordon, Jose Manuel Costa, Simon Reynolds, Greil Marcus, Amparo Lasen, Peio Aguirre and Lucy O’Brien.

Source: Press release