Jeremy Bailey
The Web I Want (2015) / Nail Art Museum (2014) / Contemporating.com (collaboration avec ACC)
about
Jeremy Bailey lives and works in Toronto. For some years now he has been calling himself “Famous New Media Artist.” He argues that the proper use of technology empowers users. On the Internet, everyone has the power to become a celebrity. Bailey is also in charge of customer experiences for FreshBooks. His work constantly blurs the lines between the professional and art worlds. He is represented by Pari Nadimi Gallery in Toronto.
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The Web I Want (2015) and Nail Art Museum, by Jeremy Bailey, self-proclaimed Famous New Media Artist, proposes new schemes for rethinking the Internet. These technologies, when used creatively, can all make us famous. More than mere economic commodities, they dress the artist's body, act as prostheses and extensions of his personality. (modifié)
Contemporating.com (2019 - in progress), a collaboration between Jeremy Bailey and Art Contemporary Club (Raphaëlle Cormier and Juliette Marzano), is an online platform that offers users the opportunity to evaluate how contemporary are Montreal galleries, artist centers and artistic institutions.
To ask what is contemporary is to ask what is actual. In this case, contemporary refers to the nowness of things. It means to completely understand and to endlessly actualize all the new parameters.
What would be the most actual way to be?
To have a contemporary art space means to have an inclusive space.
Therefore, to ask what is contemporary is to ask what is a safe space.
Against the power of money. Against patriarchy. Against mansplaining. Against anti-feminism. Against homophobia and transphobia. Against racism. Against colonialism. Against speciesism.
We are against all abuse of power.
Art Contemporary Club (ACC) is a Montreal-based independent curatorial collective founded in 2017 by Juliette Marzano and Raphaëlle Cormier.
The acronym ACC refers to the Internet slang "actually". By interchanging the order of the words "contemporary art", Art Contemporary Club acknowledge its francophone roots. In French, there’s a difference between "art contemporain" and "art actuel". With this acronym, Art Contemporary Club aims to reconcile those two current conceptions of art.
ACC conceives the Internet as an alternative space enabling new dialogues and possibilities for underground communities and artists. ACC critiques and celebrates the fetishist human quest to collect objects and images, as endless forms of archives of our collapsing world.
Art Contemporary Club is mainly active on Instagram (@artcontemporaryclub) and on its website : www.artcontemporaryclub.space.