Nikos Arvanitis / Barking Dogs United Start About Biography Works Texts Links Contact Nikos Arvanitis: 2011   Stones, Politics          Every thing will begin, when every thing will end          Limit of Control          L.O.L.A. 2010   Promising Megaphones          Zeitgeister          Pergola          Repos 2009   Stairway to Content (Sonatine Bureaueratique)          Tonight Live! 2008   Re-locating The Thrills          The Gabba Conspiracy          Masters Of The Universe 2007   Gimmie Gimmie Gimmie 2006   Holy Joy          Masochists From Above/More Skin For The Ceremony 2005   Distraction Set For An Aesthetic Destruction          I Know I Don´t          Mastering Pieces (Masters to pieces)          Utopikator          Lost at the Cutting Edge of Technology          Arena Mobile 2004   Bus Journey          Birds and Micros          A_part 2003   Vanity Sessions          Analog Days 2002   Sence Less Obvious          Digital Love          Converter Project 2001   Reflections          Labyrinth 99-00  Horizons and Devil Cyrcles 99-03  m10 + n69 ----------------------------------------------------------- Barking Dogs United: 2010   BDU: What We Want Is What You Want II          BDU: FX 2009   BDU: Property Offer          BDU: Human Dollz 2008   BDU: SIZE MATTERZ          BDU: What We Want Is What You Want 2007   BDU: Bis Auf Weiteres... 2006   BDU: On A Spaceship With No Fuel And No Future          BDU: Carwash          BDU: iForgive / iForget 2005   BDU: The Wild Bunch Back To Top BDU: What We Want Is What You Want Solo Exhibition, 15.05.08 - 28.06.08, Schalter, Berlin, Germany. For what we want is what you want, Barking Dogs United have replaced the floor of Schalter with one made up entirely of skateboards. All the boards remain functional, complete with grip tape, trucks, and wheels, creating an unstable and ever-shifting ground to stand on. Quite literally, the boards give and roll slightly with viewers as they move through the space, inviting a physical sense of insecurity to enter the work. Barking Dogs United's work is often trained on questions about art's role and function in contemporary culture. Do we view the artist as a social activist dedicated to articulating society's ills, or an entertainer? What relationship does the artist have to the art market, galleries and audience? Who can or should we answer to, and to what end? Salmon and Arvanitis locate their work in the shuffle between order and chaos, self-promotion and humility, individual prerogative and global responsibility. And, as the exhibition title suggests, the work invites us to have it both ways, without offering an explicit answer or question. Back To Top All content copyright 2008 Nikos Arvanitis + Naomi Tereza Salmon - all rights reserved