Terror Management Intering with the 2016 Auckland Art Fair

Terror Management is a group of young artists based in T?maki Makaurau/Auckland. They run their own space, Halloween Gallery, above Joy Bong restaurant on K' Rd, where they recently held the first exhibition in Aotearoa of work from Bernadette Corporation. Art obsesses them. And they want art to obsess you too.

When invited to submit a proposal for the non-commercial 'Pacific Real Time' Projects at the 2016 Auckland Art Fair, Terror Management responded with a question. Could they have a free stand, alongside the commercial galleries participating in the Fair? No stand was available, so they decided to build their own.

Quite what Terror Management will produce, no one really knows - the artists included. Their aim is to interfere with the boundary between the market value and symbolic value of art. Of course, art fairs already do this. They're as much trade shows as they are exhibitions. But/so they generally skip over emerging artists with little cash behind them.

Enter Terror Management.

Funds raised from this Boosted campaign will pay for the construction of a makeshift stand for Terror Management at the Art Fair, with any remaining monies going to the artists. Francis McWhannell is a freelance researcher/writer and Assistant Curator of 'Pacific Real Time'. He has prepared this campaign on behalf of Terror Management.