December 27 opened the exhibition of contemporary art, whose name refers to the religious practices that arose in primitive societies some of the Pacific Islands as a result of their interaction with technologically advanced Western civilization

Museum of Contemporary Art, Bat Yam (Israel)
December 27, 2012 - April 6, 2013

December 27, at the Museum of Modern Art, Bat Yam (Israel) presents "Cargo Cult».

title of the exhibition refers to the religious practices that arose in primitive societies some of the Pacific Islands as a result of their interaction with technologically advanced Western civilization. Cultists do not understand the full significance of production and commerce in Western society, and believe the acquisition of material goods advanced culture through rituals that mimic daily routines holders desired goods ("cargo»).

from coconut palms and thatch build believers "exact copy" of aircraft, runways and administrative buildings, conduct drills and military marches, using branches instead of rifles; mimic speech and behavior of the "white" man.

Exhibition yet anthropological research does not deal with the phenomenon, and offers a look at the techniques and tools of contemporary art through the prism of this strain causal field.

Cultural activities, suggesting articulation analysis of reality by means of art, the artist intensifies the integration of alien external entities (people, objects, ideas, values) and unconscious contents into consciousness. Simulation strategy of "cargo cult" not only resonate particularly in social groups, whose assimilation into Western models of cultural and financial cooperation took place in a short period of time (such as in the former Soviet bloc), but also illustrate the complex set of substitutions, mimicry and rejection characteristic of the present moment.

Exhibitors include: Mikhail Grobman , Yuri Albert , Ivars Gravleys, Andrew Leo, Paul Pepperstein , Anton Smyrna (fence), New Barbizon (Natalia Zurabov Zoe Cherkassy, ​​Anna Lukaszewski, Olga Kundina Asya Lukin), Igor Gelman-Zak, Max Komar-Myshkin Arkady Greenman, Ilya Medvedev, TBA & Nikakoi, team, Birobidzhan.

Source : press-release "Cult Cargo»