Birke Gorm at Croy Nielsen

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Materialize has become a word of extra meaning in art, a new process akin to electroplating, anodizing, or gilding. Artists "materialize" things like text into substance, into a material with weight, turd like figures, objects which feel material. Distinct from artistic objectification (which merely turns the virtual into the concrete to make it transactable), materialization is the patina of objectification, an excess. As if the content was inherent to the material object itself, as if it speaks.


see too: Materialphilia, Birke Gorm at Croy Nielsen (1)

Birke Gorm at Croy Nielsen

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Our rising desire for materiality in a world losing it manifests in fetish for increasingly grotesque versions. Coprogenics. "Author Donna Williams [...] points out that fecal smearing serve many real purposes that are often overlooked by caregivers and medical providers:
"Provides a sense of control over one’s body and environment when other areas of life are out of control
"Provides a sense of ownership over one’s actions
"Expresses feelings of anger, frustration, helplessness and powerlessness
"Prevents unwanted social interaction
"May be associated with other comforting emotional experiences
"May be part of a personal ritual that provides comfort
"May be part of an obsession that is spiraling out of control"