The Contradictory Real
MFA - 1997.
My interest in contemporary & conceptual artists' utilisation of the sociopolitical experience of city space prompted this inquiry into the work of Foucault and his notions of the human subject, and the political in the context of power relations and social networks.
For Foucault, knowledge is power when it is socially legitimised and institutional. His concept of “power-knowledge” - primarily using language - shows how power and knowledge not only depend upon one another but actually produce each other. My proposal was that art can illuminate “power” as something found within the texture of our lives - as something we 'live' rather than 'have'.
Language.
Present / absent.
Reveal / conceal.
Order / chaos.
Everywhere / nowhere.
Hijacking everyday language.
Collecting the everyday.
Collecting the everyday.
Collecting the everyday.
Hijacking the everyday.
Hijacking everyday language.
1996 (detail): ‘Untitled’.
1996 (detail): ‘Untitled’.
1996 (detail): ‘5 minutes to everywhere’.
1996: ‘Untitled’.
1996: ‘Untitled’.
1996 (detail): ‘Untitled’.
1997 (detail): ‘WANTED’ - 101 Collins Street.
1997: ‘PHONE’ - Dialogue Journal.
1997 (detail): ‘Untitled’.
1997 (detail): ‘Untitled’.
1997: ‘Untitled’.
1997: ‘Untitled’.
1997: ‘Why it has not yet happened’.
1997 (detail): ‘Why it has not yet happened’.
1997 (detail): ‘Why it has not yet happened’.
1997 (detail): ‘Why it has not yet happened’.
1997 (detail): ‘Why it has not yet happened’.
1997 (detail): ‘Why it has not yet happened’.