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In October last year #sothebys #hongkong held an #auction of #contemporaryart that was curated by the #m...
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In October last year #sothebys #hongkong held an #auction of #contemporaryart that was curated by the #musician and #art collector, #choiseunghyun, better known as #top from the #kpop boy band, #bigbang. Here is our rather lithe #curator with one of the lots from his sale, #namjunepaik’s really wonderful “Fat Boy” from 1997. It sold for 4,280,000 HKD. You needed a fat wallet to buy that fat boy. Seven monitors encased in vintage TV cases and cabinets, each playing a single-channel video, form the shape of a somewhat rotund fellow. Paik has here chosen to fashion an interesting and telling form. The figure’s symmetry is disturbed by its raised left arm. The ambiguity of the gesture is conspicuous: is it one of spiritual solemnity? Perhaps it signifies the majesty of the figure? Perhaps, even, is it a dictatorial salute? T.O.P. inspects it closely. That puzzling ambiguity also feeds in to the title of the work. ‘Fat Boy’ could reference certain images of #buddha - as deities go, he’s not afraid of a pie or two, right? It could also reference certain political leaders. And God knows we’ve seen enough pudgy autocrats over the past few centuries try to rule (and undo) peoples’ lives. 20 years after it was made (and unbeknownst to the artist), there are two particular ‘Fat Boys’ that instantly come to mind, currently engaged in bouts of playground nuclear politics. All these possible tributaries of meaning trickle through the work, subsequently articulating the mechanics and dynamics of #video and #sculpture in a direct manner that still manages to maintain a certain whimsy. The #medium delivers the language and the language delivers the #message; a wry, slippery take on the bastions of religion and politics and how their shared symbolic order can energise often misleading, sometimes redundant but, occasionally, dangerous trajectories of thought. That was then; the future is now, to paraphrase #paik. Or, as I prefer to describe the conflation of religious and political symbology: same shit, different day. Heavy stuff, this fat boy, but T.O.P. made fat #phat. He turns 30 today 🎂. #koreansdoitbetter #korea #artist #bigbangv
conflation 在 馮智政 Facebook 的最讚貼文
【相信人民還是相信黨?】造紙的關係,近日在讀Margaret Archer在95年的神作《Realist Social Theory: The Morphogenetic Approach》。
圖中闡述結構及社會之辯,一說:結構上而下引起社會互動,所謂Downward Conflation(沒有共產黨沒有新中國),另一說:社會互動帶來新結構,所謂Upward Conflation(中國最壞時候,共產黨創立了)。可惜,Archer婆婆從來無談及如何判斷當下是Downward Conflation還是Upward Conflation。就好似你不會知道未來是由當權者的勝利,或是人民勝利。
唯一Archer婆婆 同她的同志 Michael Young 給了我們少少提示:「比較真的真理會贏過真理」