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Cara Stricker Solo Show
“MAKE LOVE TO THE WORLD”
THE HOLE NYC, JUNE 2014
PHOTOGRAPHIC, FILM AND SOUND EXHIBITION
ARTISTS INCLUDE: : BOOTS, ROGER O’DONNELL(THE CURE), KIRIN J CALLINAN, DEV HYNES (BLOOD ORANGE), JOHN KIRBY (SEBASTIEN TELLIER, BLOOD ORANGE), ETHAN SILVERMAN (TERRIBLE RECORDS), DCM, SIBERIA RECORDS, KNOW-WAVE RADIO, ABBEY LEE, MINDY LE BROCK, DANI GRIFFITHS (CLYDE), NAOMI SHIMADA, HOLLAND BROWN AND GEORIGA PRATT.
This is an exhibition exploring the creative collective unconscious driving dreams and
fantasy towards creativity and new thought. The individual is captured within the natural
surroundings to fall back into this world and break down the physical self revealing and
inspiring the truism of the artist’s, removing the labels placed on the female or the male,
Make Love To The World’ moves between the super-real and everyday instinctual
routines whether human created or naturally spawned exploring the stigmas surrounding
male and female roles beyond the associative constructs of the human body. The
relative perspective towards physicality allows for an intuitive and communal dream-like
experience.
The exhibition explores the primitive senses that expose our magnetic relationship within
nature. In the form of interactive installation, the set-up is instrumentally individualised to
encourage the audience to embrace their innate sexuality presenting the youth –
female/male – without judgment, equal and falling back into their birth through dissolving
the boundary between surreal candid moments present the subjects as the modern
humans, relfecting components of the new technological world and its ricochet effects on
human nature.
In the form of photography, sound, video and technology, the concept overflows beyond
the physical realm, to a space of interaction, online and dual overseas happenings.
Exploring her community of creative. Making love is the by-product of extending our
human unconscious and create a birth of the new, beyond sexism, toward sex, and
forcing the eye back into natural state of being. Whether in nature or that created by our
human induced nature amongst the city and our religions, to put trust back in our human
instincts and sexuality, beyond raunchy culture to suggest freedom, and form away from
labels by breaking down the concepts of homogenized identity created by the consumer,
and hope to inspire new thought.
Photographing and collaborating with musicians and artists the conversation begins in
the fused community beyond the medium, STRICKER hopes to inspired the individual to
dream and make love to the world, through humor, the female gaze and rue less nature.
The show presents the youth, female, male, equal and falling back into their birth
whether in the mind or physically, through constructed surreal candid moments, and
look into the eye of the human creations of the city and its natural state, to allow new
thought, view our environment, and challenge any ideals set within ones constructed
world of thought.
[Life-Force]
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Cara Stricker
STRICKER is an Australian multi disciplinary Director, Photographer and Music Producer currently residing in Los Angeles and New York. Growing up in Australia whilst training as a Dancer and Musician throughout her adolescence, Stricker moved into studying film and photography at UTS Sydney, graduating in 2010 with a degree in Film and Bachelor of Arts.
Cara’s works have been published internationally including Nowness, Interview Magazine, Dazed and Confused, Vogue, ID Magazine, NYT, 25 Magazine, Oyster Magazine, Fader, VS Magazine, Riot of Perfume, Russh Magazine and Rolling Stone, while collaborations include Chanel, Missoni, Mother NY, Alexander Wang, Parkwood Entertainment, See Pictures & Sol Films, Terrible Records, Debbie Harry, XL Records, Matte Projects, MiLK, GAP, Fools Gold, Vogue, EMI, Siberia Records and Modular Records.
Her work has been awarded and screened internationally including Vivid Festival Australia,Colarado Flexiff International Festival, Sydney International Animation Festival, Indie Spirit Film
Festival and Sugar Mountain Festival, including music performances as of late off her debut audio visual album produced with John Kirby self titled, DROOL, released on Terrible Records. Her most recent shows exhibited at the Hole NYC the last two consecutive years, including visual sound collaborations with Boots, Roger O’Donnell (the Cure). Throughout the past year, Stricker travelled and performed in Australia, LA and New York City.
Soliana Habte
Natalia Parsonson
Natalia is a Sydney based portrait ,fashion and beauty photographer based in Sydney floating between Paris,London and Los Angeles.Clients include Yen,Oyster,Russh,I.D,Milk and Catalogue Magazine
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El Mirage
Portraits taken exclusively for Milk by Natalia Parsonson.
Whole story on MILK “ ABBEY LEE & CARA STRICKER ON YOUR NEW FAV ART PROJECT [EXCLUSIVE]:
https://milk.xyz/feature/abbey-lee-cara-stricker-on-your-new-fav-art-project-exclusive/
Cara Stricker Richard Prince – REAPPORIATION AND GENDER REPRESENTATION
original post from Richard Prince repost, exhibited at Gagosian.
THIS ESSAY WAS WRITTEN IN RESPONSE TO MY IMAGE AND INSTAGRAM BEING EXHIBITED AND SOLD AS BEHALF OF RICHARD PRINCE’S “NEW PORTRAITS” EXHIBITION AT THE GARGOSIAN GALLERY IN NYC.
IT WAS FIRST PUBLISHED IN ALL DAY EVERY DAY
IS WHAT WE ARE CREATING TODAY A RE-APPROPRIATION OF EVERYTHING BEFORE IT?
IT’S NOT ABOUT BREAKING THE RULES OR ‘FREE THE NIPPLE’, IT’S ABOUT HOW INSTAGRAM, FACEBOOK AND OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA HAVE ENABLED OUR ADDICTION TO COMMUNICATING WHILE QUIETLY TAKING OVER THE COPYRIGHT. YOUR LATEST EXHIBITION IS PERFECTLY THIS: RE-APPROPRIATING SOCIAL MEDIA AND ITS APPROPRIATION OF OUR COPYRIGHT.
EVERY TIME WE USE INSTAGRAM OR FACEBOOK WE SIGN A WAIVER GIVING PERMISSION TO SELL OUR IMAGES, AND YOU HAVE BOTH EXPLOITED AND UNDERMINED THIS. I SUPPORT THIS COMMENTARY: NO ONE OWNS AN IDEA, AND YOUR WORKS STATE THIS IN BOLD. YOU GIVE NO EXPLANATION, ONLY AN INFRINGEMENT NOTICE:
“WHERE IN PLACE OF THE TYPICAL GALLERY EXPLANATION TO PROVIDE ANALYSIS OF THE SHOW, THERE IS ISSUED SIMPLY THE COMMENT, ‘ALL IMAGES ARE SUBJECT TO COPYRIGHT. GALLERY APPROVAL MUST BE GRANTED PRIOR TO REPRODUCTION.’”
AND THE WAY FORWARD: OUR GENERATION ACCEPTS APPROPRIATION AND BORROWING FROM ALL PASTS BECAUSE WE ACCEPT A FUTURE OF UNITY. “THE YES GENERATION”… HOW ELSE COULD WE MOVE FORWARD EXCEPT THROUGH THIS ACCEPTANCE AND THE FREEDOM IT GIVES US?
I CAN TAKE MY TOP OFF IN A NEW YORK GALLERY, IT IS LEGAL — ALTHOUGH IT’S DEFINITELY DIFFICULT TO FOCUS ON THAT AT THE SAME TIME AS TAKING A SELFIE OF A PORTRAIT OF A ‘SELFIE’ INTENDED FOR INSTAGRAM. WE WAVE OUR RIGHT TO PRIVACY, SOMETIMES WITHOUT REALIZING, SOMETIMES VOLUNTARILY, SO WHAT IS OUR IDEAL PLATFORM? THE ONLINE SPACE IS A NEW SORT OF PALETTE FOR ARTISTS TO OFFER NEW PERSPECTIVES ON VOICE AND FREEDOM. ACCEPT AND BROADEN THE PLATFORM. CELEBRATE FELLOW ARTISTS AND LIVE AGAINST THE GRAIN.
TODAY I RECEIVED AN EMAIL ABOUT RE-APPROPRIATION — THAT WORKING WITH YOUR PEERS AND RE-APPROPRIATING YOURSELF WAS SIMPLY A MARKETING TOOL. IT MADE ME WANT TO RUN OUT THE WINDOW! I SEE OUR GENERATION AND OUR FIGHT FOR EQUALITY IN ALL THINGS AS EXACTLY THE OPPOSITE OF THIS. WE SHOULD BE PUSHING AGAINST ALL BOUNDARIES, WHETHER INDUSTRY, GENDER, OR OTHERWISE. COLLABORATION AND STANDING ON THE SHOULDERS OF GIANTS, USING THE WAY THE WORLD AND INDUSTRY ARE SET UP IN ORDER TO CHANGE BOTH, CAN ONLY BE FRUITFUL AND A WAY TO FIND AND GIVE FREEDOM.
I BELIEVE IN ACTIVE WOMEN WHO TAKE CHARGE TO HEAL, LISTEN TO AND LOVE ONE ANOTHER, AND MEN WHOM DO THE SAME, SUPPORTING EACH OTHER AND RESPECTING ONE ANOTHER ON AN EQUAL PLANE OF THOUGHT AND LIFE. INSTINCT SHOULD BE OUR GOAL, SO THAT THE ULTIMATE VERSION OF OURSELVES, WHOMEVER WE END UP BEING, THRIVES.
I HOPE PEOPLE CONTINUE TO USE THE TOOLS OF TODAY, TO SAY WHAT THEY WOULD LIKE TO SAY AND SEE, ALLOWING THIS TO BE A PLATFORM FOR ART AND ALTERNATE VOICES, FREE OF JUDGMENT. YOU COMMENT ON A GENERATION WHO PHOTOGRAPH THEMSELVES AND FOCUS IN ON WHAT THEY WANT TO SEE. I SEE THIS BEHAVIOR AS THE ULTIMATE CONFIDENCE IN THE INDIVIDUAL, EVEN IF WE ARE SUBJECT TO COPYRIGHT, AND PERHAPS THIS IS OUR LESSON OF ACCEPTANCE. YOUR ART WRAPS THE COVER OF POP MAGAZINE, FLOWS THROUGHOUT THE GAGOSIAN AND IS CONSTANTLY BEING REWORKED, RE-APPROPRIATED, AND RE-CURATED ON INSTAGRAM. META!
THIS TYPE OF RAW, INSTINCTUAL REFLECTION OF THE WORLD’S WORKINGS ALLOWS PEOPLE TO REFLECT AND WORK TOWARDS BEING COMFORTABLE WITH WHAT THEY HAVE BEEN GIVEN, ALLOWING THEM TO THRIVE IN WHATEVER WAY THEY WILL. TAKING PHOTOGRAPHS OF NATURAL, RAW, SENSUAL IMAGERY ALLOWS US ALL TO SEE WHAT IS REAL, AND BE OK WITH THIS AS BOTH A FORM OF COMMUNICATION AND OF SEXUALITY. OUR PERCEPTIONS OF WHAT WE SHOULD LIKE AND BE LIKE ARE CONSTANTLY CHANGING. WE SHAPE OUR PERCEPTION THROUGH VOICE AND CHOICE, AND THROUGH RE-APPROPRIATION, WHICH SHOULD BE, ON ALL FRONTS, ACCEPTED.
THIS IS WHY WE LOVE YOU, RICHARD PRINCE: FOR STATING THE OBVIOUS. BUT THEN AGAIN, WE DON’T GET COMMISSION .
CARA STRICKER, 2014
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