CWS (Celebrity Worship Syndrome) Gala Kirk

"Fame has become the ideological and intellectual fabric of modern capitalism. Our is the economy fame." - Tyler Cowen, NZ Listener July 12-18th p 30.

Celebrities... Beautiful people... Popular heroes... the ideal beauty...

The multimedia installation looks at the ways in which the distinctions between the real and unreal have become blurred in our media saturated lives. Integrating the worlds of commercialism and fine art, Kirke explores the obvious delusion the public has developed in recent years, an obsession with false charm and idealised ideas of the real. 

Presented alongside Nick Dewar Rant