SPACORE is a group-exhibition at Co-Prosperity opening on April 1st until April 22nd. Join us at Co-Prosperity for an opening reception on Saturday, April 1st from 6-9pm!
Visit SPACORE during EXPO weekend for a one-night event presenting performance work and object activations in the gallery space after our open hours on Saturday, April 15th, from 5-8pm.
Stay after the performances on April 15th for The Cunty & Clownish Party from 8pm - midnight!
Co-Prosperity is excited to present SPACORE, a unique group exhibition and performance series centered around an immersive horror-spa installation. Curated by Serena JV Elston and Rudolf Lingens, the show features forty five artists from around the country interrogating wellness capitalism in the midst of global illness.
SPACORE is the lifestyle aesthetic of the moment. Born of the intersection of work-from-home and pandemic horror, SPACORE is the blurring lines of relaxation and employment; it is the labor of repose. SPACORE is a critique of wellness capitalism. It explores the neoliberal attempt to pacify the working class with the promotion of superficial “wellness.” This version of wellness co-opts the language of radical self-care and redefines it as access to upper-class amenities regarded as luxury. Wellness culture derives its “authenticity” through appropriative aesthetics that steal from non-Western cultures. Wellness is a colonial project designed to locate suffering within the individual in order to repress political revolt. SPACORE situates wellness in the horror genre, where it belongs. SPACORE is always in all caps because it is the sound of your boss yelling at you.
SPACORE opens at Co-Prosperity on Saturday, April 1st and will run through April 22nd, with a day of performance followed by a party on Saturday, April 15th.
The Cunty & Clownish Party: Saturday, April 15th from 8pm - midnight, after the performances from 5-8pm.
A party featuring absurdist spa treatments, performances, live music, a juice bar, and custom cocktails served from a ceramic fountain of blood! Want to call out from your stupid job on Monday? We got you covered! Take a selfie in our SICK DAY PROOF installation and be Instagram-ready to prove to your boss you can’t come to work. ONLY CUNTS AND CLOWNS ALLOWED.
Participating Artists:
Autumn Ahn • Guru Aman • Nour Ballout • Mack Baker • ST Barry • Phoebe Beckett Chingono • Dani Chë • Amelia de Rudder • Erica Dincalci • SAGE DYE • Serena JV Elston • Becs Epstein • FLEMING • Ben Gfell • Sky Goodman • King Green • Philipp Groth • Tali Halpern • Joe Harjo • Janet Loren Hill • Jeung Bok Holmquist • Tyler Hubby • Sun Lynn Hunter • Kelly R Johnston • Dylan Languell • Sungjae Lee • Yeji Lee • Rudolf Lingens • Erica Maria Littlejohn • Marne Lucas • Alejandro Macias • Allen Moore • Aaron Morganstein • Mikey Mosher • Vincent Phan • Mac Pierce • Ruby Que • Sandrine Schaefer • Corey Smith • Nikki Telegan • Val Thompson • Sabato Visconti • Tilcara Webb • Adrian Wong • Florence Woolley • Kelly Xi
