Would you like respite from the doom and gloom?

Does ART allow us to dream of a DIFFERENT WORLD?
Can ART inspire a new ECONOMIC STRATEGY?
What would happen if we took one day off from the recession?
Take ‘recession’ out of your vocabulary for one whole day.
Invent your own new words or phrases as replacements to imagine a new state of affairs. Drop your alternatives into our ‘register of words’ at City Hall, Atrium Foyer, Angelsea Street, where you can also receive your own copy of the Decree to sign ALL DAY 17 JUNE or simply post them online at www.nationalsculpturefactory.com.
SUPERFLEX is a Danish art collective, founded in 1993 whose interventionist practice deals with economic markets, power structures, self-organisation and environmentalism. They understand their artistic practice as a set of tools, or as an invitation to positive action and participation rather than in terms of discrete works of art.Viewers often become co-producers, shifting the focus away from objects to relationships where the artworks that can be redefined and modified by users. More recently Superflex have been working with legal contracts, challenging public and private copyright laws which led to complex legal negotiations. By investigating the function of a contract, Superflex have created new works which are statements and proposals and can be understood as political acts re-defining particular contexts and situations.

‘Today we don’t use the word Recesssion’ is commissioned by the National Sculpture Factory and Cork Midsummer Festival and is supported by Lord Mayor Cllr. Dara Murphy and Cork City Council
For more information on this project or SUPERFLEX visit
www.nationalsculpturefactory.com or www.superflex.net