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Critical Halloween: Luxury

critical-halloween-static-identity-captured-in-house-smallNOTE: OFF-SITE EVENT

Critical Halloween is a party, an intellectual debate, a costume competition, and a space for the expression of radical thought. Over the past few years, it has become a referential event that brings people together through music, dance, and costume to engage in critical discussion in New York City.

Each year, Critical Halloween celebrates a feared ghost of art and architectural production. This year, we explore LUXURY.

Luxury is a chameleonic and shifting term. We use it to describe that which we desire; we all want to have the luxury of time, and some of us want to see it pass by on a luxury watch.

Derived from the Latin “luxus” (excess), the term carries fluctuating pejorative and covetous connotations. The modern confluence of excess and excellence conflicts with a world that also aspires to fairness and equality.

The appropriation of luxury as a marketing tool has penetrated contemporary life, and luxury itself is too often entangled in capitalistic and financial exuberance. Constantly bombarded by media campaigns, our individual and collective vectors of desire are constantly realigned with the products, services, and goods being marketed and sold to us. However, luxury cars, luxury goods, and luxury homes may in fact have little to do with luxury itself, or with the values behind our real aspirations.

Our decisions are often driven by the opinions and power of tastemakers and experts. This year, we are looking for new connoisseurs. Critical Halloween invites you to denounce obsolete definitions of luxury in art, architecture, and design, and to redefine its possibilities in shaping the future.

Critical Halloween is a space of reflection and action based upon the belief that critical ideas have a place within even the most seemingly carefree manifestations of our culture: the Halloween costume party.

This year Critical Halloween: Luxury will take place at United Palace, formerly one of the original five Loew’s Wonder Theatres.

United Palace
4140 Broadway, New York, NY

Tickets
Critical Halloween is a ticketed event. Tickets include access to the United Palace, professional portrait photos of each guest, open bar, site­specific installations, dancing, and live DJ sets throughout the duration of the evening.
Individual Ticket: $50 in advance ($60 at the door)
Critical Committee: 5 tickets for $200 and listing on all materials
Critical Firm: 25 tickets for $1000, listing on all materials, and discounted Storefront membership for new corporate members and employees

Event Schedule
9 pm -­ 2 am: DJ sets, dancing, open bar, interviews, and site­specific installations
9 pm -­ 11 pm: Costume competition registration and portrait photos
11:30 pm ­- 12 am: Jury deliberation
12 am: Announcement of costume competition winners
12 am -­ 2 am: Luxurious debauchery











When: Sat., Oct. 29, 2016 - Sun., Oct. 30, 2016 at 9:00 pm - 2:00 am
Where: Storefront for Art and Architecture
97 Kenmare St.
212-431-5795
Price: $50 & up
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critical-halloween-static-identity-captured-in-house-smallNOTE: OFF-SITE EVENT

Critical Halloween is a party, an intellectual debate, a costume competition, and a space for the expression of radical thought. Over the past few years, it has become a referential event that brings people together through music, dance, and costume to engage in critical discussion in New York City.

Each year, Critical Halloween celebrates a feared ghost of art and architectural production. This year, we explore LUXURY.

Luxury is a chameleonic and shifting term. We use it to describe that which we desire; we all want to have the luxury of time, and some of us want to see it pass by on a luxury watch.

Derived from the Latin “luxus” (excess), the term carries fluctuating pejorative and covetous connotations. The modern confluence of excess and excellence conflicts with a world that also aspires to fairness and equality.

The appropriation of luxury as a marketing tool has penetrated contemporary life, and luxury itself is too often entangled in capitalistic and financial exuberance. Constantly bombarded by media campaigns, our individual and collective vectors of desire are constantly realigned with the products, services, and goods being marketed and sold to us. However, luxury cars, luxury goods, and luxury homes may in fact have little to do with luxury itself, or with the values behind our real aspirations.

Our decisions are often driven by the opinions and power of tastemakers and experts. This year, we are looking for new connoisseurs. Critical Halloween invites you to denounce obsolete definitions of luxury in art, architecture, and design, and to redefine its possibilities in shaping the future.

Critical Halloween is a space of reflection and action based upon the belief that critical ideas have a place within even the most seemingly carefree manifestations of our culture: the Halloween costume party.

This year Critical Halloween: Luxury will take place at United Palace, formerly one of the original five Loew’s Wonder Theatres.

United Palace
4140 Broadway, New York, NY

Tickets
Critical Halloween is a ticketed event. Tickets include access to the United Palace, professional portrait photos of each guest, open bar, site­specific installations, dancing, and live DJ sets throughout the duration of the evening.
Individual Ticket: $50 in advance ($60 at the door)
Critical Committee: 5 tickets for $200 and listing on all materials
Critical Firm: 25 tickets for $1000, listing on all materials, and discounted Storefront membership for new corporate members and employees

Event Schedule
9 pm -­ 2 am: DJ sets, dancing, open bar, interviews, and site­specific installations
9 pm -­ 11 pm: Costume competition registration and portrait photos
11:30 pm ­- 12 am: Jury deliberation
12 am: Announcement of costume competition winners
12 am -­ 2 am: Luxurious debauchery

Buy tickets/get more info now