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Subject: Nov. 14, 5-8pm: The Yes Men reception+workshop @Miller Gallery
at Carnegie Mellon University
Date: 	Mon, 10 Nov 2008 18:20:53 -0500
From: 	Astria Suparak, Miller Gallery <as at cmu.edu>




After debuting to a tremendous crowd in Portland, Oregon, the first-ever
survey exhibition of renowned activist-artists *The Yes Men* opens
*Friday, Nov. 14*th at the Miller Gallery at Carnegie Mellon University
in Pittsburgh. Kicking off the East Coast debut of/ Keep It Slick:
Infiltrating Capitalism with The Yes Men/ is a "How To Be A Yes Man"
Workshop with sneak peaks of their upcoming film,/ The Yes Men Fix The
Worl/d. Then ease into our Business Casual Reception with Yes Men Mike
Bonanno and Andy Bichlbaum, from 6–8pm.



KEEP IT SLICK:
Infiltrating Capitalism with The Yes Men
Curated by Astria Suparak
Nov. 14, 2008–Feb. 15, 2009


EVENTS

Nov. 14, 5pm:
*/How To Be A Yes Man /Workshop* + Film clips from their upcoming movie.
Miller Gallery, 2nd floor.
Sponsored by the STUDIO for Creative Inquiry + School of Art Lecture Series.

6–8pm:
*Business Casual** Reception*. Miller Gallery, 3rd floor.
Please bring offerings for the dearly departed _Reggie the Janitor_.


RELATED

Dec. 4, 8pm:
*/The Yes Men Movi/**e* @_ Pittsburgh Filmmaker_s, Melwood Screening Room.


ABOUT

_The Yes Men_ are among the most visible and effective activist-artists
of our time, reaching countless people through websites, newspapers, and
television broadcasts. Over the past decade they have fearlessly taken
on the world’s biggest corporations and bureaucracies. Infiltrating the
elite realm of the influential and the moneyed, cloaked in the sheerest
layer of authority–thrift-store suits, quick-print business cards,
forged press releases–these social activators urge us to question where
ethics belong in our capitalist-driven society.

This survey represents the first-ever solo exhibition of The Yes Men.
Here you can walk into a re-creation of their past exploits in the
Conference area, witness a comically apocalyptic future, and pay your
respects to a janitor who generously donated his body to satisfy our
insatiable energy needs. In the Executive Board Room, you may browse
through The Yes Men’s personal office items and orate along to their
absurd PowerPoint presentations
/Keep It Slick/ was organized by the Feldman Gallery at Pacific
Northwest College of Art + Miller Gallery at Carnegie Mellon University.

Details: _http://millergallery.cfa.cmu.edu//enews/MillerENewsYM_YTI.html
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Purnell Center for the Arts
5000 Forbes Ave.
Pittsburgh, PA 15213

412.268.3618
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Tues.–Sun., 12–6pm
Free and open to the public



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