Friday, August 28, 2015

“Violent Incident” at De Vleeshal

Bernadette Corporation
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Nauman's Violent Incident takes rendered reality of sitcom slapsticks and with slight reintroduces the bodily, insinuating the violence as "real," in a way television wanted us to forget and flighting between the two worlds (slapstick and true violence) in a repetitive, exhaustive, serialization that Mike Kelley - always insightful critic on cultural symbolic violence, and speaking of Nauman's bodily sculptures - described as producing the uncanny, which could just as well be described as alienation, the same alienation that has become synonymous with the sort of first-world symbolic violence that most of us feel day-to-day as the background radiation to life, and is the aleph to a lot of renderstentialist art, a violence against our connectivity to whatever we deem real these days: That when a fake corporation engraves "i love rihanna!" on a the false concept of luxury faucet, connections to any concept of "speaking" or affect is broken, and feel numb, a violent incident indeed.

see too : Rachel Rose at High Art