Christine Hill

Christine Hill

An initial discussion, of course in a coffee shop, began with consternation that words like "revolutionary" and "genius" get thrown around, and have long become divorced from what they actually used to mean. They've become cheapened. Everyone's "genius" if they do something vaguely well, and every technical gadget is a "revolution". In our day to day exchanges, we are repeatedly getting sold something that isn't remotely what it pretends to be. Are we more satisfied with the packaging than the content? This extends farther beyond the concept of "revolution", to almost every cultural, ideological issue. We remember that subversive thought, along with the concept of the "underground", used to be something of extreme value. Today, if you don't have a mainstreamed blog that you can sell into a book deal within a one year turn around from launch, your vision risks being pronounced a failure.The name "Revolution Fleamarket" alludes to the fact that we have to still - we want to still - rummage for the real items of substance. We can't just get handed them on a plate, or in a 10-best-of list.The start of this collection was to see, in a limited space of time, how much revolution one can intentionally acquire. And what it looks like. We tried to buy the revolution. This is what we got.