1992 Seminal Art
(Foucault)
Michel Foucault is the dark angel of theorizing about
genetics. theories of discursive power in Discipline and Punish, with
Bentham’s panopticon as his model and also known for saying language
is oppression. Meaning that language was developed to allow only those
who spoke the language, not to be oppressed. Presence as “secondness” after
possibility and before futurity. Many have pictured the self’s
becoming as an exercise in passivity. For him, large forces of culture
and society do the shaping. What is shaped, it, the person. We are all
interpreters of ourselves, of others and of our shaped surroundings.
A Supremacist construction montage about Foucault’s life, searching
for ghosts in the corridors of power, as harmonic synthesis of recklessness
and restraint.
Heterotopic, though real, I use installations of moving images to create
places of deviance. These “countersites” embody their host
culture, and at the same time they dissent, causing that culture to stumble.
These “counter-sites” can be seen as: ”outside of all
plases, eventhough it may be possible to indicate their location in the
reality.”This work represents the heterogeneity of heterotopia
that ”is capable of juxtaposing in a single real plase,several
spaces, several sites that are in themselves incompatible.”(FOUCAULT)
The heterogeneity and mutation of my work transcend the conflict and
confrontation of the real world, where they exist as distinct sites of
resistance.
The method encompasses acts both secretive and revelatory, part tease
and part arcane ritual of iconoclasm, mortification and redemption. The
edges are submerged to reveal cognitive truths rather than objective
reality, his hairless head a symbol of the intellectual. Devoted not
to portraiture, but to the rendering of action. Steven Rovner collection.
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