"We were interested in what types of [activist] sabotage we could ask people to perform in a gallery setting,"
"to make work that has a more active role in the world, work that has teeth"
"the assumption that art doesn't have any actual power"
A climate change call-centre installation invites visitors to wear headsets, call fossil-fuel executives and follow scripts designed to prolong conversations and impede productivity. The exhibition centers on Offset (2023–25), an alternative carbon market selling credits for dissident emissions-reducing acts such as the Tyre Extinguishers' 2022 deflation of more than 10,000 SUVs' tyres. A video narrated by a George H.W. Bush voice clone outlines the project conceit while exposing sleight-of-hand accounting common to offset schemes. A digital interface lets visitors buy offsets with proceeds directed to the groups or individuals who carried out the emissions-reducing actions. The works stage activist sabotage in a gallery context and assert an interventionist, consequential role for art, aligning with arguments that sabotage can be a justifiable form of climate activism.
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