Capitalism Works For Me! True/False

Note: Due to transport delays, this show will open Saturday at January at 11:30am and will run as scheduled until January 24th. The online panel discussion on January 20 will proceed as planned.

Steve Lambert’s installation is nothing if not blunt: the artist has constructed an interactive, street-level billboard that allows citizens to vote on capitalism in its relation to their own lives, with the tally reset each day. One could call the project an ideological scorecard, or an implicit index of popular happiness. By framing the issue in personal terms, Lambert provokes respondents into examining their own choices and standards—it’s an end-run around the dissociation we so often fall victim to when discussing ideology.

Hosted by: Alexa Fraser, Carmen Aguirre, Howard Dai, Laurie M Landry, Reza Zandi and Sebastien Archibald

Speaking of discussion, Lambert is willing to take things further than a simple yes/no binary: hosts will be on-site at the installation, ready to engage passers by in conversations about their lifestyles, their beliefs, and any other topic that falls under the enormous umbrella of capitalism. Inspired, accessible, and generative, this work dares to put forth a question that our leaders work so hard to bury, but which we have a right— even a duty—to consider.

To launch this installation, Vancouver Public Library is hosting an online conversation that will address important questions like: Are perceptions of capitalism changing? Who does this system benefit or leave behind? And why don’t we hear more (and better) mainstream discussions about whether capitalism is working for us?

This event will be on Thursday, January 20 at 12pm. You can find details and register here: Is Capitalism Working for Us?

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