Let Me Be an Object That Screams |
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| Author:
| Morris, Matt
Kleekamp, Evan |
| Editor:
| Swindell, Alisa |
| ISBN: | 978-0-9676118-0-8 |
| Publication Date: | Dec 2017 |
| Publisher: | Gallery 400
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $20.00 |
Book Description:
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Let Me Be an Object that Screams documents an exhibition of the same name that brought together a range of works by contemporary artists in order to test psychoanalytic concepts of `subject-hood¿ and the ways a subject¿s counterpart, the `object,¿ is animated by artistic and exhibition practices. The exhibition proposed subversions to how political and psychic power have been traditionally and consistently distributed in accordance to who is perceived to operate with agency and...
More DescriptionLet Me Be an Object that Screams documents an exhibition of the same name that brought together a range of works by contemporary artists in order to test psychoanalytic concepts of `subject-hood¿ and the ways a subject¿s counterpart, the `object,¿ is animated by artistic and exhibition practices. The exhibition proposed subversions to how political and psychic power have been traditionally and consistently distributed in accordance to who is perceived to operate with agency and thought, in contrast to the disinvestment of groups and communities read as ¿other.¿