Members Preview: DEMO

Join us for a members only preview of MOCA’s Great Hall exhibition, Juan Obando and Yoshua Okón: DEMO. MOCA members, board, and ambassadors are invited for a first look at the show with a curators and artists toast.

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About the exhibition

DEMO is a multimedia exhibition by artists Juan Obando and Yoshua Okón that explores the practice of “astroturfing”—a marketing ploy that generates fake public demonstrations intended to appear as grassroots political movements. Through video, sculptures, and installation, the artists expose how astroturfing methods are used to manipulate public perceptions and neutralize political action. Engaging the aesthetic, gestural, and performative dimensions of astroturfing, Obando and Okón highlight the power of disinformation on public perception, and urge us to consider the deep-seated intersections of visual culture, civic protest, concentrated capital, and political mechanisms.

Image Credit: Juan Obando and Yoshua Okón, DEMO (video still), 2022. Courtesy of the artists and Proyectos Monclova.