He also collaborated with Jade Townsend on the Lemonade Stand, ABMB Hooverville, Bellum
Omnium Contra Omnes, and the recent New New Berlin at the Galveston Artist Residency.
All images in slide show: Details from William Powhida and Jade Townsend, Bellum
Omnium Contra Omnes, 2012, graphite on paper.
Adherents of Social Practice, Relational Aesthetics, video - game art, and lots of other kinds of art - making appear in Bellum
Omnium Contra Omnes, but they don't exactly get along.
William Powhida and Jade Townsend, Bellum
Omnium Contra Omnes, 2012, graphite on paper, on view at Freight + Volume in Chelsea through September 7.
Bellum
Omnium Contra Omnes, 2012.
Bellum
Omnium Contra Omnes (A War of All Against All, 2012) is the largest and depicts fifty - two distinct art world factions engaged in Hobbesian total war stoked by the agents of the «ruling asset class» such that they are unable to unite and revolt against the powerful elites who determine their fates.
He also collaborated with Jade Townsend on the Lemonade Stand, ABMB Hooverville, and Bellum
Omnium Contra Omnes.
We've seen the theme before, a Hobbesian analysis of bellum
omnium contra omnes, or «war of all against all.»