WHAT LOOKS GOOD TODAY MAY NOT LOOK GOOD TOMORROW

WHAT LOOKS GOOD TODAY MAY NOT LOOK GOOD TOMORROW

After the fashion industry, Chicks on Speed have chosen a new target, which is even bigger and more monstrous: the art market. Due to a speculation bubble without precedence, art has become the fifth largest industry in the world. Art collecting is now regarded as avantgarde consumer behaviour, collectors have become role models of coolness, and curators are said to be the new DJs. Not only the prices are absurd, the whole system is corrupt.

It has always been part of COS' subversive strategy to beat adversaries with their own weapons. They now fight the art market with art, and museums are their operating theatre. Therefore, the even larger collective of COS (Kathi Glas, Anat Ben David, A.L. Steiner, Melissa Logan and Alex Murray Leslie) co-operate with their famous artist-colleague Douglas Gordon.

«Art Rules!» is a campaign: a performance, a song, and a video.

«Art Rules!» performaned by *Art Rules Crew, has already been shown in important museums like the Pompidou Centre in Paris, the Museum of Modern Art in New York and venues in Madrid and Vienna; in the near future, museums in Kyoto and Tokyo will follow.

The first document from their campaign will be released in form of the CD «Art Rules!», co-produced by COS and Christopher Just. This Euro-Trash anthem against the art trash shown at the 2007 mega-events in Kassel, Venice, and Basel was produced in a hotel room in New York, just after the COS performance at the MoMA.

Important notice for collectors: Sell your paintings before the bubble finally bursts! Note that only a few illegally distributed copies of «Art Rules!» made the song 3 in the 2007 annual charts of spex magazine.
Franz Liebl

(*Art Rules Crew is/sind Chicks on Speed, Douglas Gordon, A.L. Steiner, Anat Ben David, Adi Nachman and Kathi Glas.)

«ART RULES» BY CHICKS ON SPEED, DOUGLAS GORDON AND CHRISTOPHER JUST

«ART RULES» will be released JANUARY 31st THROUGH CHICKS ON SPEED RECORDS!

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