{CTS} creative thriftshop is both honored and some what frighten to present the latest and craziest performance by artists The Fantastic Nobodies's entitled America’s Most Unwanted (from the series The Living Frame). This is a special four day long marathon performance to run concurrent with New York's most prestigious Armory Art Week. We will have portions of the performance streamed live online and into our booth at the -scope New York art fair.

For the artist, this is a homecoming of sorts, right here in New York, in the heart of Williamsburg, Brooklyn where it all began ten years ago. The Fanatic Nobodies is a group of five core artist, Steve Johnson, Marc Grubstein, Dave Henry Brown Jr., Chad Spicer, Daniel Joseph, now so we are clear... and so you the viewer comes prepared to the exhibition people may join and dismantle ...ebb and flow in and out of the group as they gallivanting around the world but for the core artist this is a long time coming since the artist have been living and working individually in both the US and Europe since 2007.

America's Most Unwanted builds off the widely successful performance Operation Shitstorm which was a month long presentation at brot.undspiele gallery (2008, Berlin). Here the artist were able to create a stage, The Living Frame, this idea of a perfect picture, a masterpiece, the golden ratio where everything within is possible and absurd. Where both the performer and the viewer were universal and interchangeable. Every moment created was in flux, was fleeting, a continuum of the great art happenings of the sixties with a dash of anti capitalist endeavors of the seventies. The Living Frame is a constantly-changing moving piece of art: part play; part soap opera; part circus sideshow; part vaudeville; part improve class; part avant garde theater; part social commentary part you... Here, today, it's all Fantastic all the time, please tune in.

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Performance schedule: noon to midnight from March 1st-March 4th 2009 with a LIVE SHOW each evening. To watch a live stream during performances go to: www.fantasticnobodies.com and look for the LIVE STREAM or visit the SCOPE ART FAIR by Lincoln Center NYC, streaming to {CTS} creative thriftshop booth #B32 or log on now

about the artist: What began 10 years ago as party antics and costume wearing became, in the course of a decade, via relentless Bush Era disillusionment, a highly developed and unique artistic language, if not a cult of urban legend The Fantastic Nobodies are a cast of performance characters who have collaborated together to create remarkable fusions of art and life. Acting as reflective mirrors for each other’s creativity, the collective has fostered great breadth of production including: performance, infiltrations, social sculptures, situations, happenings, road-trips, cooking, photography, installations, video, music, poetry, painting, and drawing.

about the curator: Bipolart launched in 2007 as an independent curatorial outpost with a growing portfolio site for selected artists. A contention of Bipolart is that exhibiting diverse work side by side fuels discourse toward a progressive reception of art. Dialectical tension from such a curatorial process underlines the 'bipol.art' distinction.

about the gallery: CTS is quality art on the move. Championing provocative content driven work by local and international mid-career, underrepresented, and emerging artists in all media. Our goal is to build an infrastructure that knows no boundaries, one that carries the torch of modernism a