Mike Stubbs - City Strapline Industries

Melbourne-based, English artist film-maker Mike Stubbs often adopts a documentary style, blending social realism and political awareness with an acute emotional sensibility. For City Strapline Industries, he casts a keen eye on city marketing and the collective obsessions and frustrations of socially disenfranchised citizens. The installation places idiosyncratic and unsanctioned culture alongside efforts to market a location strategically, highlighting the complexities and hierarchies involved. Straplines like 'Sheffield – City on the Move', 'Bedfordshire - A Progressive County' and 'Bradford's bouncing back' serve as testaments to the universality of city marketing over recent decades, but also to the continuing inertia of social and economic realities that bears upon these aspirational, optimistic statements.

Fuel brings together recent films by the artist to offer an overview of his recurring themes and dynamic practice. Including City Strapline Industries, Donut, Jump Jet and Gift, the exhibition is 'fuelled' partially in response to the collective contemporary malaise of disaffection and disillusionment.

Exhibition

20 May - 18 Jun 05 | Fuel | Creative Industries Precinct, Brisbane, AU

City Strapline Industries, commissioned and produced by Forma

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Mike Stubbs
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