Breaking Windows
18 September - 07 November 2010
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Breaking Windows
September 18 – November 7, 2010
Benja Sachau, Cristiano Mangione, Douglas Gordon, Eva & Franco
Mattes, Gulnara Kasmalieva and Muratbek Djumaliev, Heike Bollig, Ignacio
Uriarte, John Duncan, Jorinde Voigt, Kate V Robertson, Marco Bruzzone,
Michael Stevenson
"The totality of moral rules truly forms about each person an imaginary
wall, at the foot of which the flood of human passions simply dies
without being able to go further. For the same reason – that they are
contained – it becomes possible to satisfy them. But if at any point
this barrier weakens, these previously restrained human forces pour
tumultuously through the open breach; once loosed they find no limits
where they can stop.”
– The problem with anomie Emile Durkheim
"The breakdown in societal regulation does not free the individual to
engage in deviance. Rather it creates pressure to engage in deviance.”
– The Future of Anomie Theory Nikos Passas & Robert Agnew
FEINKOST is pleased to present the group exhibition "Breaking Windows”,
an exhibition looking at social entropy through projects addressing
ideas of order and disorder.
The title of the exhibition is a riff on the notorious "Broken Windows
Theory” proposed by social scientists James Wilson and George Kelling in
1982 and then popularized by New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani in his
policies for cleansing the city streets of crime. An empirical evidence
to support the text was an experiment carried about by Stanford
psychologist Philip Zimbardo, famed for his 1972 Stanford Prison
Experiment. Zimbardo located two abandoned cars each without license
plates and their hoods propped open, one in the Bronx and the other in
Palo Alto. The Bronx car was dismembered to scraps by locals within its
first day. The Palo Alto version sat quietly for a week. Zimbardo
reportedly catalyzed the downfall of the Palo Alto automobile by
furtively smashing part of it with a sledgehammer. The citizens did the
rest.
For any questions, images or further information please contact Aaron Moulton or Mette Ravnkilde Nielsen at info@galeriefeinkost.com
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