Secret Project Robot “Country Club”
Rachel Nelson and Erik Zajaceskowski
July 15- September 11
“Secret Project Robot Country Club”, a cheeky caricature of Americana and a site specific fully interactive miniature golf course by Rachel Nelson and Erik Zajaceskowski of Secret Project Robot. The 9-hole course is fully “playable” with trophy paintings and prints available to all golfers. Expounding upon and revisiting their 2013 installation, the show is a cheeky play on Americana, country club life and childhood joy will feature heavily on floral psychedelia, environmentalism and consumer culture. Toying with the current political upheaval along the lines of “Make America Great Again,” the artists explore the question, what was ever really great about America? From Wonder Bread to the opioid crisis, from mass pollution to corporatization, race riots to labor and class struggles, what exactly are we nostalgic for?
Country Club, then plays with themes of wealth, inequality, the notion of golf itself as an elitist pass time where “the big decisions” get played out without consideration to the masses.
Giant flowers and products, butterflies and sea creatures, nature unhinged or fighting back? It’s psychedelic and dystopian, it is a diorama to walk through and putt at, a place to keep score and relax while the world as we know it unravels…
