The Yes Men

KEEP IT SLICK: Infiltrating Capitalism with The Yes Men

Curated by Astria Suparak.

KEEP IT SLICK is the first major exhibition of the artist-activist group The Yes Men. As culture-jamming activists, the group has exposed dehumanizing business practices and enacted ethical “identity correction” since 1999. Their antics have included impersonating representatives from megacorporations and government organizations such as ExxonMobil, the World Trade Organization, McDonald’s, Halliburton, Dow Chemical, and the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development.

The Yes Men are a loose-knit association of some 300 impostors worldwide who agree their way into the fortified compounds of commerce. Evidence of their sociopolitical pranks, including elaborate costumes, slapstick videos, outrageous posters and props, will be exhibited alongside new works produced for this exhibition. In addition to this landmark exhibition, The Yes Men will conduct a workshop (page 142) imparting practical knowledge, with preview clips from their new feature length film to be released this fall, The Yes Men Fix the World.

KEEP IT SLICK is co-produced by the Feldman Gallery at the Pacific Northwest College of Arts and the Miller Gallery at Carnegie Mellon University.

www.theyesmen.org

...a band of guerilla media activisits...exposing the matrix of corporate power and government venality for all to see. Mark Dery, The Pyrotechnic Insanitarium