Juha Forss: Politics of Boredom
IT WAS MANY AND MANY A YEAR AGO, IN A KINGDOM BY THE SEA, THAT A PIMP THERE LIVED WHOM YOU MAY KNOW BY THE NAME OF GQ MOTHERFUCKER. BITCH DO YOU KNOW WHO THE FUCK THIS IS? OF COURSE YOU DO. IT’S CHARLIE SHEEN, BITCH. FUCK WHAT YOU HEARD. LOOK AT THIS SCANDALOUZ ASS MOTHERFUCKER, INTENSE AS SHIT. HE DRINKS, DO DRUGS, GAMBLES, MOUTH KISS HOOKERS, AND SHUTS BITCHES DOWN WITH PSYCHOTIC RANTS AND EPIC MELTDOWNS. I MEAN; THAT’S JUST HOW HE FUCKING ROLLS. HE DOESN’T GIVE A SHIT. JUST BACK THE FUCK UP AND CHECK OUT THOSE MOURNFUL EYES, SHIIIIIT!!! NO, SRSLY, LOOK AT THEM, LIKE TWO DEEP POOLS OF ENDLESS SORROW, HOT DAMN IT’S LIKE HE’S FUCKING YOU WITH HIS EYES. JUST A BADASS LIBERTINE GETTING SHIT DONE.
Politics of Boredom – consists of uncredited quotes, and some slightly altered memes, or something like that. TAGS: Boredom, indifference, transgression, ennui, implosion, acceleration, excess, substance abuse, partying, hedonism, self-destruction, hybris, jouissance, narcissism, freedom, emptiness, immanence, repetition, audacity, fatique, failure, addiction, obsession, internet, YouTube, YTP, Photoshop, meme, quote, misquote, communication, plagiarism, appropriation, abstraction, subtext, nonsense, irrationality, trolling, shitposting, poetry, death, existence, solipsism, fame, media, vanity, amateurism, exclusion, inclusion, absence, fleeing, survival, demotivation, attitude, anxiety, meltdown, rebellion, paradigm shift, late capitalism, post-postmodernism, Charlie Sheen, Georges Bataille, Jean Baudrillard, Michel Houellebecq. Politics of Boredom – is dedicated to those who choose indifference; emancipation from all restraint.
Juha Forss is a visual artist living and working in Helsinki. He has graduated from the University of the Arts Helsinki (MA), and from the Turku Arts Academy (BA). His works explore the social, cultural, political and ideological structures of contemporary capitalism.
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Politics of Boredom näyttelykokonaisuus rakentuu kreditoimattomista sitaateista, sekä muunnelluista meemeistä, yms. Politics of Boredom näyttely on omistettu heille, jotka valitsevat välinpitämättömyyden; vapautuksen kaikista rajoituksista.
Juha Forss on Helsingissä asuva ja työskentelevä kuvataiteilija. Hän on valmistunut kuvataiteilijaksi Turun Taideakatemiasta ja taiteen maisteriksi Helsingin Taideyliopistosta. Hänen teoksensa tutkivat nykyajan kapitalismin sosiaalisia, kulttuurisia, poliittisia ja ideologisia rakenteita.