'We want to make real life change.'
From performance to paintings to poetry, activist art takes many forms. In 1916, Dadaists Hugo Ball and Emmy Hennings mounted the Cabaret Voltaire at a cafe in Zurich, where they invited creatives such as Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee and Sophie Täuber-Arp to join in anarchic performance art that made a statement against the First World War. In 1937, Pablo Picasso painted"Guernica," a legendary piece of anti-war protest art.
Rather than"coming for them" armed with paintbrushes and palette knives, the collective is using augmented reality."The best part about AR is that there's all this free digital space and there are no laws, there are no rules. There are no regulations at this point," Espinosa says.
Hanan, who moved to Denver fourteen years ago and is the creative director for Squirrel Creek Lodge, recalls that at the time they were brainstorming the AR collective, the European Union was raking Facebook and Google over the coals for misusing data.
The exhibition’s name is meant to"address our dark history" by combining Manifest Destiny and dystopia."It's really easy to see all the characteristics of dystopia that we're living in right now, and so that's what we want to address," Espinosa explains."We only want local artists for this particular exhibition, because we're trying to elevate local artists [and] kind of Robin Hood the city.
The artists have also been leaning into their Robin Hood nature with roguish pranks. On April Fools' Day, they mounted an"NFT Garage Sale” in RiNo, where they sold NFTs for cash in the form of"fungible wooden tokens," which were imprinted with URLs on one side that would activate augmented-reality art on the other.
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