{"title":"Alex Bag","description":"\u003cp\u003eAlex Bag is a New York-based video and performance artist whose work has been central to new media and institutional critique since the 1990s. Known for her use of role-play, character, and polyvocality, Bag has exhibited at the ICA Miami, American Fine Arts, and major international venues.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis collection brings together exhibition ephemera, printed brochures, and artist publications produced in connection with Bag's exhibitions and projects — objects that document her practice while operating as printed matter in their own right.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eExhibition brochures and gallery handouts\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePrinted matter from institutional presentations\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRare and out-of-print publications\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"alex-bag-the-van-redux-ica-miami-2015","title":"Alex Bag — The Van (Redux)*, Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, 2015","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAlex Bag — The Van (Redux)*\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eInstitute of Contemporary Art, Miami, 2015\u003cbr\u003eExhibition brochure \/ gallery handout\u003cbr\u003eStapled booklet, illustrated throughout\u003cbr\u003ePublished for Alex Bag: The Van (Redux)* at ICA Miami, 2015–2016.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePrinted exhibition brochure for Alex Bag's ICA Miami presentation \u003cem\u003eThe Van (Redux)*\u003c\/em\u003e. The project returned to Bag's 2001 video \u003cem\u003eThe Van\u003c\/em\u003e, extending it through a new work, site-specific installation, and the fictional corporate structure of The Leroy LeLoup Corporation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBag's work remains sharply placed in the present: role-play, art-world speech, sales performance, media character, and institutional theatre collapse into one another. This brochure operates as more than documentation. It is a small printed support for a work already concerned with fiction, commerce, persona, and the performance of contemporary art itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor The New Rare, the object sits close to the shop\/object register: museum handout, exhibition residue, corporate fiction, retained printed matter.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCondition: good used condition, with light handling marks and minor surface wear.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShipping and handling included in the listed price.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The New Rare","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53685205041490,"sku":"BAG-ICAMIAMI-CAT-2015","price":85.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0991\/5636\/1554\/files\/Bag_Alex._Alex_Bag_The_Van_Redux_ICA_Miami_a479de13-b530-47d9-9f81-5afa20c2d22f.jpg?v=1780954527"},{"product_id":"bag-ica-miami-poster-2015","title":"Alex Bag — The Leroy Group: The Van (Redux)* — Exhibition Poster, ICA Miami, 2015","description":"\u003cp\u003eLarge-format exhibition poster\u003cbr\u003eICA Miami \/ The Leroy Leloup Corporation\u003cbr\u003eOffset print on glossy stock, folded as issued\u003cbr\u003e1 December 2015 – 31 January 2016\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLarge-format exhibition poster produced for \u003cem\u003eThe Van (Redux)*\u003c\/em\u003e, a 2015–2016 presentation by Alex Bag at the Institute of Contemporary Art Miami. The poster documents Bag’s long-running fictional corporate structure surrounding the character Leroy Leloup: an unstable salesman, producer, cultural entrepreneur, media drifter, and failed executive figure moving between parody, performance, television culture, and administrative language.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe exhibition is framed not simply as an artwork but as a licensed presentation by “The Leroy Leloup Corporation, a licensed subsidiary of Blood Oath Holding Company LLC,” extending Bag’s practice of collapsing entertainment branding, corporate identity, authorship, and institutional display into the same structure.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart exhibition announcement, part fictional corporate advertisement, part administrative hallucination, the poster functions as a surviving support object from a moment when contemporary art increasingly absorbed the language of branding, licensing, subsidiaries, media performance, and entertainment economies. Seen now, the work feels unexpectedly adjacent to post-internet image circulation, corporate roleplay, delegated identity, and the unstable authorship structures later intensified through platform culture and AI-generated personas.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e Good vintage condition. Original fold lines throughout, light surface wear, minor handling marks, soft creasing, and light edge wear consistent with institutional poster distribution and storage.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA temporary institutional surface retained long enough to become object again.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShipping and handling included.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The New Rare","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53726396645714,"sku":"BAG-ICAMIAMI-POST-2015","price":100.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0991\/5636\/1554\/files\/Bag_Alex._The_Leroy_Group._The_Van_Redux_._2015.jpg?v=1781245383"}],"url":"https:\/\/thenewrare.com\/collections\/alex-bag.oembed","provider":"The New Rare","version":"1.0","type":"link"}