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Street art is everywhere in Barcelona. This is 'Barcelona Head' by Roy Lichtenstein, completed in 1992
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419, or 'THE SPANISH PRISONER' , exhibit opens in Barcelona January 18, 2008
The exhibition
project on the Nigerian e-mail scam known as the 419, with a documentary section by curator Jeffrey Swartz and a video installation
by Catalan artist Pep Dardanyà, will open at the Centre d'Art Santa Mònica, Barcelona, on January 18, 2008. The exhibition
runs to March 23.
One part of the exhibition space is dedicated
to a documentary portrait of the 419 advanced fee fraud, featuring books, CDs, objects, document portfolios and reproductions
of documents and images, as well as scambaiter merchandising and a computer where links might be explored. This portrait includes
an analysis of the internet culture that facilitates the success of 419, its legal ramifications, the world of anti-scam activism
and scam-baiting, as well as a view into present day Nigeria and the cultural dynamics of Lagos where the scam originated.
Pep Dardanyà contributes the video installation "Correlation 1.1", which astutely points up
the contradictions and ambivalences of culture contact between post-colonial Nigeria and the First World.
A full overview of the documentation to be exhibited and internet links related to the show have been posted here. A more complete press release from the previous venue in Vic is available here .
A video of the exhibit in Girona can be viewed
on YouTube.
The article published in the Spanish daily El
País on November 23 can be found here.
Project produced in collaboration with Centre
d'Art Santa Mònica, Barcelona
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