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│ [ Front 242 - Art & Strategy 92 ] │
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│ Date [ 08-07-2000 ] ░▒▓▓▒░ [ 01 (28:20 min) ] Songs │
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│ This CD is part of a book/cd set that was released in 1992 to │
│ accompany the exhibitions they had. Only 1000 made. A lot of Front │
│ 242 discographies on the net don't even list it ... │
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│ http://www.dhennin.com/front242/interviews/interview_35.htm │
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│ Art & Strategy '92 - Members of Front 242 exhibit a different medium │
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│ Inside a sprawling whitewashed loft in lower Manhattan, ponytailed │
│ young men struggle with a folding bar table, still photographers │
│ hustle their tripods from painting to painting, and a harried gallery │
│ staffer roots through an enormous box of papers looking for the guest │
│ register - a normal enough scene before a small gallery opening in │
│ Soho. Normal, that is, except for the brace of blackclad teenagers │
│ squatting outside on the sidewalk, clutching invites, wainting for │
│ the press session to be over so they can get in. │
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│ Take into account that this is the New York opening of Art & Strategy │
│ '92, a travelling installation by Patrick Codenys and Daniel B. of │
│ Belgian techno-industrial perpetrators Front 242, and picture starts │
│ to make more sense. │
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│ The show, which premiered July 10 in Chicago, features 15 │
│ limited-edition serigraphs (prints made by the silk-screen process) │
│ and three huge original oils by the Art & Strategy collective, as │
│ well as a specially designed ambient musical environment and a │
│ multi-screen video bank showing (in dizzying time-stagger) Front 242 │
│ videos from throughout the group's ten-year career. The exhibit's │
│ cumulative effect is disorienting, engulfing, larger-than-life. │
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│ Although A&S policy is to avoid "explaining" individual works │
│ (essentially, B. and Codenys are the core memebers of this │
│ collective, and they direct another artist in the painting of the │
│ works), they're friendly, direct, and unpretentious when asked about │
│ the philosophical underpinnings of the current exhibit as a whole. │
│ "IT is about process more than final objects", says Codenys, "that's │
│ one reason it's called Art & Strategy and not just Art. │
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│ For instance, the actual image there (gesturing to the sleek │
│ cybernetic landscape of Integration) doesn't exist in a form you can │
│ look at; it's a magnetic pattern on a computer disk. So the painting │
│ and the serigraphs are about the process of creating different │
│ reflections of the original image, which you can't see". A&S prefer │
│ to let viewers work out meanings for the exhibit's components on │
│ their own - for the viewer of the picture, as well as its creators, │
│ the emphasis is intended to be on process as much as end results. │
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│ Process, of course, takes various forms. Sometimes the high-tech │
│ photo and computer thecniques underlying the paintings have amusingly │
│ low-tech beginnings. Of the grimacing, goggled figure in "Tyranny" │
│ (who appears in a slightly different version as the cover of Front │
│ 242's Tyranny for You), Codenys says "that's me, actually, shot │
│ through a transparent bathtub. They kept pouring cold water on me to │
│ get that expression." Front 242 fans will no doubt also recognize │
│ other images in A&S '92, many of which echo the cover art for Front │
│ 242's recent albums and their new series of re-releases. No │
│ surprisingly, it's all part of greater design for an integrated │
│ aesthetic program of music, art, video - even clothing. Daniel B. │
│ explains: "We don't see our artwork as separate from the rest of what │
│ we do - we don't see ourselves as belonging to the 'art community'. │
│ We're just applying ideas across the spectrum of art forms." │
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│ A&S designs are also slated to appear on upcoming Front 242 tour │
│ shirts. A&S '92 ran through September at Thread Waxing space in New │
│ York and will reopen in December at Thomas Solomon's Garage in Los │
│ Angeles. │
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│ by Roddy Potter, │
│ Alternative Press, 1992 │
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