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by Colette Shade
With essays titled “Larry Summers Caused My Eating Disorder”, “(Remix)”, and “Closing Time” Shade dissects the ways that the 2000s continue to haunt our imaginations, dreams, and the darkest corners where mass media and self-consciousness meet.
From the McMansions to the 2008 housing collapse, Shade pokes at the ways the 2000s haven’t died. For example, Shade looks at how the modelling agencies of the 2000s, such as MC2 (owned by Jean-Luc Brunel and financed by Jeffery Epstein), Elite Model Management (John Casablancas’ modelling agency which eventually represents Ivanka Trump) scooped up young girls and women from the collapsing USSR and put them on the front cover of Vogue - an open snapshot of how certain men were exploiting girls and women individually and on a society-wide level.
The 2000s weren’t just an era of darkness though - Shade helps wade through the optimism that characterized the times as well. The strength of the alter-globalization movement, Rage Against the Machine, and the whiplash of the end of history maybe explains why after the 2008 crash and the Great Recession “many millennials were calling themselves socialists and making podcasts about historical materialism and tweeting profanity at New York Times columnists”. Its all very confusing, digging through our recent past keeps popping up in our lives right now. Shade’s work is to help us experience and then cut through the nostalgia - before the aesthetics of the 2000s get recycled and consumes what happened.
by Colette Shade
With essays titled “Larry Summers Caused My Eating Disorder”, “(Remix)”, and “Closing Time” Shade dissects the ways that the 2000s continue to haunt our imaginations, dreams, and the darkest corners where mass media and self-consciousness meet.
From the McMansions to the 2008 housing collapse, Shade pokes at the ways the 2000s haven’t died. For example, Shade looks at how the modelling agencies of the 2000s, such as MC2 (owned by Jean-Luc Brunel and financed by Jeffery Epstein), Elite Model Management (John Casablancas’ modelling agency which eventually represents Ivanka Trump) scooped up young girls and women from the collapsing USSR and put them on the front cover of Vogue - an open snapshot of how certain men were exploiting girls and women individually and on a society-wide level.
The 2000s weren’t just an era of darkness though - Shade helps wade through the optimism that characterized the times as well. The strength of the alter-globalization movement, Rage Against the Machine, and the whiplash of the end of history maybe explains why after the 2008 crash and the Great Recession “many millennials were calling themselves socialists and making podcasts about historical materialism and tweeting profanity at New York Times columnists”. Its all very confusing, digging through our recent past keeps popping up in our lives right now. Shade’s work is to help us experience and then cut through the nostalgia - before the aesthetics of the 2000s get recycled and consumes what happened.