13 Nov. 2007 - 26 Jan. 2008 : Tue-Fri 10am-6pm, Sat 12-6pm Artists : The Yes Men Screenings : TBA Artist Talks : TBA, with the Transmedia Department of Syracuse University and Syracuse Symposium Reception : 15 Nov. 5-8pm, Th3 Arts Night @ The Warehouse Gallery in Downtown Syracuse, New York

This exhibition will be a rare chance to see the tools of camouflage that The Yes Men use to enact ethical "corrections" of corporate responsibility in widely publicized stunts. Through impersonating business leaders and World Trade Organization spokespersons on television, at conferences, and on the web, The Yes Men reveal the capitalist underpinnings of war and focus attention on the inhumanity of corporations and the cruelty that greed induces.

"Forget The Matrix's Neo: The Yes Men are The One—or, rather, The Ones, ascended masters of media hoaxing, sociopolitical pranking, and Tactical Embarrassment. From GWBush.com, their deft evisceration of His Illegitimacy's official website, to their helpful re-branding of Dow Chemical's public image (on the anniversary of Dow's 1983 Bhopal screwup, which killed 5,000 people), to their Regime Change Playing Cards (trade you a Dick Cheney Ace of Spades for a GWB Four of Clubs!), the Yes Men have earned the ire of big, lumbering targets such as the World Trade Organization and George W. Bush. What a wonderful world, where a band of guerrilla media activists does the toothless newsmedia's job for them, exposing the Matrix of corporate power and government venality for all to see. Welcome to the Desert of the Surreal." - Mark Dery, author of The Pyrotechnic Insanitarium: American Culture on the Brink


More about the artists: www.theyesmen.org