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Peter Bugg in collaboration with Ryan Peter Miller – Open for Business
Peter Bugg in collaboration with Ryan Peter MillerTitle – Target Audience Business – ASU Art Museum Store*
Target Audience addresses the role of identity and participation in consumer propaganda. In this performance, contemporary pop idols replace the iconic Korda image of Ernesto “Che” Guevara on t-shirt “uniforms,” underscoring the role of image appropriation in contemporary marketing. Audience members are asked to enlist in a conceptual army and join one of three causes. Target Audience exposes the lengths to which individuals will go to identify with a collective group, even as the identity of that group expands and diversifies.
*Originally proposed to two corporate clothing retailers in downtown Tempe, the piece offered a critique of consumers’ tendencies to follow trends. Reflective of contemporary patterns of staffing in retail establishments, a lack of consistent managerial personnel at these two locations made collaboration with these businesses impossible.
Saskia Jorda – The Shoe Mill
Peter Bugg with Ryan Peter Miller – ASU Art Museum Store Mary Lucking – Rúla Búla David Tinapple – Cartel Coffee Lab Cyndi Coon – Downtown Tempe Community, Inc. (DTC) Jon Haddock – The Headquarters Tania Katan – The Library Bar & Grill* Adam Murray – Caffe Boa Wendy Furman – BrandX Custom T-Shirts Matthew Mosher – Fascinations Erin V. Sotak – La Bocca Chris Todd – Sucker Punch Sally’s* Jen Urso – The Bicycle Cellar Nic Wiesinger – Monti’s La Casa Vieja
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