FLATTee
FLATTee designed by James Perkins with KOOS for exhibition at Ground Support,
Final version and others available at FLATTshop Nov 29th. photo Christina Lessa
Crunk at Rita Ackermann
Art drawing a huge crowd at the Swiss Institute. photo James Perkins
RYAN LESLIE | put your lighters up
The Harvard grad gave a hype performance at SOB’s which also featured surprise appearances by Fab and Lloyd Banks. Putting your ‘lighters’ up has a new meaning in 2010. -JP
CREDIT CREDIT SQUEEZE SQUEEZE
FLATT Exec Editor Christina Lessa on Spring and Mott St.
Chrissy & Felipe
Editor Christina Lessa and designer Alfonso Felipe at the exhibition at Ground Support Cafe. photo James Perkins
CREDIT SQUEEZE: The New Angst Group
Photos by Submission.
CREDIT SQUEEZE: THE NEW ANGST GROUP
Ground Support Cafe | SOHO NYC
Photography by JAMES PERKINS
Curated by GIORGIO DELUCA
Nov 15th – Dec 15th
Dec 9th Presentation & Reception | 7pm
There is a new angst group. We have seen the evolution of the 35 year-old skateboarder, the 40 year-old rapper and the institutionalization of underground. We find ourselves in a new America. The United States of Aesthetica. A United States where hip-hop and skater culture is no longer a shock to suburban kids or their parents.
But the lights have been turned on at the party. A new onomonopia, not “Bling Bling,” but Credit Crunch is being heard. The younger generation is finally cutting their teeth on their very own global, generational catastrophe.
The ones affected this time ironically, are the “comfortable center” made up of the well-educated who went to a good school, assumed $50,000 in school debt, and now can’t find a job to pay half that.
The New Angst Group, the new outer edge, the new nonparticipants. They grew up very comfortable and now are experiencing discomfort.
They were told that all they had to do was “be good boys and girls,” finish their homework, go to college, contain their partying to a certain degree, and they would be allowed to merge into wonderful consumer society seamlessly.
But as someone said to me recently, “The Upper East Side failed to keep its promise.” The “comfortable center” made up of the well educated are scared shitless. In German, angst means “fear.”
We now see the emergence of a new “hip” crowd. And this crowd brings their own aesthetic and artistic sensibilities to express their frustration.
In the worst of times the media has deserted the aspirations of this generation.
FLATTmagazine and this art exhibition seek to address these deficiencies.
-James Perkins
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