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Indepth Arts News: "Carey Young, Terms and Conditions, 2004" 2005-03-18 until 2005-05-01 IBID Projects London, , UK United Kingdom
Disclaimers represent an act of imagination in which a problem has been foreseen, and then a protective legal structure created so that the disclaimer-user is protected. Disclaimers are contracts that make individual citizens powerless players in a legal performance that may be enacted in the future. They have a time-based, choreographic aspect, in that they delineate and create stoppages within possible future action.
Carey Young has developed four works around this theme. For/ Disclaimer/ Young has collaborated with Massimo Sterpi, a notable intellectual property lawyer and art law expert, to create an edition of three disclaimer panels which playfully use a legal precision to destabilise the relationships between artwork, viewer, artist and exhibition context. The fourth work, /Terms and Conditions/ (2004), is a short video which features a suited woman speaking to camera in a welcoming tone whilst standing in an idyllic agricultural landscape, replete with references to the painterly landscape tradition. Her speech appears to discuss the 'site' but the text is actually a composite of disclaimers from corporate websites. In the rural setting, the speech seems both absurd and curiously apt.
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