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Art’s Bright Ideas Ignite Debate

Posted ideaonly on December 2nd, 2007 | Filed under Exhibition

What would the world be like if we used more, not less, energy? A daring new exhibition finds out.

Society needs more energy, not less. Conservation is conservative. A progressive society will not limit its industrial output but let rip, just as soviet Russia set out to increase production with its Five Year Plans…

Provoked? That’s the intention of an art exhibition at  London’s Rokeby Gallery  called  Fusion Now! More Light, More Power, More People. Its curator JJ Charlesworth wonders “what art and society would be like if we thought positively about a world based on more energy, not less.”

Before you dismiss this as a cranky marginal enterprise you may like to know that two previous Turner nominees, Mark Titchner and Liam Gillick , are involved. The outstanding sculptor Roger Hiorns exhibits a huge light bulb that uses lots of power, covered in semen to emphasise its image of joyous waste.

[Via: designboom ]