- Title
- Monuments to heroic failure
- Creator
- Lowry, Sean
- Relation
- Broadsheet Vol. 37, Issue 3, p. 198-201
- Relation
- http://www.cacsa.org.au/archives/index_frames.html
- Publisher
- Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2008
- Description
- Perhaps it is little more than a knee-jerk response to the scale, duration, sometime political sanctimony and immersive theatricality that has dominated video installation during the last decade, but it nonetheless appears that defiantly unheroic content and relatively modest exhibition formats are back (again). In keeping with art’s trajectory since the 1960s (categorised in terms of critical and conceptual genealogies rather than by discipline), this tendency is reappearing across modes of production ranging from sculpture to lo-fi media, performance and music. Characterised by a tendency toward absurd juxtaposition, collage and the abject, this is a moment that once again resembles formations that have typically appeared in response to times of extreme wealth, poverty and unrest. Historically, tendencies toward collage appear in times of war, trauma, anger, pessimism and conflict. To finally ascertain whether this new unmonumentality is in any way significant really depends upon a subjective comparison of the strategic value of historical precedence versus an assessment of qualitative ‘maturity’ across time.
- Subject
- unmonumental; exhibition formats; culture; art
- Identifier
- uon:5019
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/42879
- Identifier
- ISSN:0819-677X
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