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Review: US OR CHAOS

Review: US OR CHAOS Downloaded from http://afterimage.ucpress.edu/ on December 5 2019 EXHIBITION REVIEW US OR CHAOS BPS22 Charleroi, Belgium September 22, 2018–January 6, 2019 US OR CHAOS is a group exhibition held at BPS22 (previously called the Solvay Provincial Building, abbreviated as BPS22) in Charleroi, Belgium—a museum committed to showing international artwork that examines pressing social issues. This exhibit’s title comes from a statement a Spanish riot police officer gave to Democracia, a Madrid-based artist collective. The collective’s artworks are featured in the museum, among the works of twelve other contemporary artists. The exhibition focuses on two themes. It demonstrates the violence at the root of domestic and international politics. It also speaks of the paradox of modern democracy, which is in part responsible for that tension. Democracy is a political regime that provides the most far- reaching political freedoms in the history of humanity. At the same time, all democratic regimes are also states, and states are fundamentally an expression of organized violence. US OR CHAOS points a finger squarely at the tension between the democratic nature of modern states, and the statist nature of modern democracies. “It’s either us or chaos” was the statement voiced by an anonymous riot policeman who http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Afterimage: The Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism University of California Press

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Downloaded from http://afterimage.ucpress.edu/ on December 5 2019 EXHIBITION REVIEW US OR CHAOS BPS22 Charleroi, Belgium September 22, 2018–January 6, 2019 US OR CHAOS is a group exhibition held at BPS22 (previously called the Solvay Provincial Building, abbreviated as BPS22) in Charleroi, Belgium—a museum committed to showing international artwork that examines pressing social issues. This exhibit’s title comes from a statement a Spanish riot police officer gave to Democracia, a Madrid-based artist collective. The collective’s artworks are featured in the museum, among the works of twelve other contemporary artists. The exhibition focuses on two themes. It demonstrates the violence at the root of domestic and international politics. It also speaks of the paradox of modern democracy, which is in part responsible for that tension. Democracy is a political regime that provides the most far- reaching political freedoms in the history of humanity. At the same time, all democratic regimes are also states, and states are fundamentally an expression of organized violence. US OR CHAOS points a finger squarely at the tension between the democratic nature of modern states, and the statist nature of modern democracies. “It’s either us or chaos” was the statement voiced by an anonymous riot policeman who

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Published: Nov 1, 2018

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