WHEN : 14th June, 6:00pm
WHERE : Room 60, shop 22 carraway street, KG urban village, Brisbane
The Maximilian, are pleased to invite you to celebrate the first in an official trio of national launches in our home town of Brisbane. The Maximilian is an online platform and publication, publishing writing and projects at the intersections of art and theory, culture and philosophy. We are excited to launch our inaugural agglomeration of writing, including contributors from across Australia, the US, the UK, and Spain.
The Brisbane launch will include a distinguished one-night screening of Daniel McKewen’s ‘Titanic in Dollars’ from his ‘Top Ten Box Office Blockbusters in Dollars’ Series (2010). The Maximilian and artist Daniel McKewen share an interest into the effects and possibilities of current phenomenon in popular culture, mediated and discussed through digital technologies. McKewen’s practice probes popular culture, intercepting and reconfiguring it to consider the phenomenon of fandom in both everyday life and critical practice. Often with reference to his personal relationship and experience to such media, he presents us with an account which is at once disquieting and affecting. Revisiting this earlier work, we have the pleasure of pausing to look back on McKewen’s flourishing practice. The ‘Titanic’ work comes as particularly apposite as 2012 marks the 100-year anniversary of the event, and the corporate world takes measures to capitalise as such: with the Titanic movie re-released in 3D and a new television series aired. Running for the length of the original film, ‘Titanic in Dollars’ plots the production budget and worldwide gross profits of one of the top grossing films of all time.
