During the 2000 US presidential elections Al Gore lost for George W. Bush. In 2007, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize (joint award with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change). Not bad, for a consolation prize! Not bad at all. So prevalent is the influence of US diplomacy on a world scale that they on a conscious level represent the dominant networks of power that structure our world since the Second World War. A figure to which everyone points to when want to explore examples of power imposition, infiltration and capitalisation. Either being because of ill-treatments or when in need of help. This leads me to the work's subject of the Swiss-Austrian-American duo founded in 1999 by lizvlx and Hans Bernhard - UBERMORGEN - and their exhibition, u s e r u n f r i e n d l y, at Carroll / Fletcher (London). [text in progress...]
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