World Championship Cup Classic

A Gallery 148 Show by Mad Radtke and Malakai Greiner. World Championship Cup Classic is a show that critically examines sports in the US through visual art and performance.

 

While acknowledging the excitement of sports, the show is also conscious of the problems that arise within the structures and seek to inspire change for the future. As sports fans too, the artists are interested in interrogating the structures of Performativity (rules, teamwork, play, competition), Role (gladiator, religious figure, gender), Spectatorship (voyeurism, public gaze, living vicariously through your team, commodification) and Beauty (athleticism, endurance, aesthetic) within sport.

 

A sport is a set of rules and hierarchical roles applied to an athletic activity. Sport is collaboration, theatricality, endurance, mastery, performance, a battle of luck against skill, a battle against the future, all existing within boundaries of time and space uniquely specific to sporting itself. Overall, sport is art.

 

Participating artists:
Mad Radtke
Malakai Greiner
Nico Sardina
Carly Haack
Iris Monahan
Hannah Jerrie
Kristina Johnson
Jerod Jenkins 
Thad Stalmack

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Kai Greiner performances at 6:45 and 8:30PM, Black Box Gallery