In the tradition of bringing you politically minded, socially relevant art – Australian artist Fiona MacDonald and curator Ricky Subritzky in conjunction with Daneyal Mahmood Gallery and Pace University will collaborate on a series of three installations.

In the installation, Spin at Daneyal Mahmood Gallery, a series of lamps are transformed into zoetropes ; precursors to cinema, zoetropes use cylinders set in motion to animate still images. Riffing on the mendacity of political “spin”, and satirizing mass media’s problematic predilection for simplification, MacDonald & Subritzky animate imagery drawn from current affairs. As each trope spins erratically – a hand passes a buck; someone does a back flip; somebody else fans the flames; and the canopy of America’s last Liberty Tree spins in perpetuity.