looking again at Tony Oursler – edited by Simona Lodi 1998

  • 1970’s movement of art – with a generation formed by media of TV – ‘form follows content
  • disenchanted with TV as an object celebrated by previous generation of artists (Nam June Paik etc)
  • “…converting a household appliance into art whereas, I felt like the magic of the appliance was hindered by the box itself.” Tony Oursler

Empathy – Mutation – Audience

  • simplified system of reality – mechanism that links the mass media to whole range of psychological and social disorders
  • social conditioning – media have the power to direct people’s habits

since 1970’s sculpture – inspired by conceptual art artists extended practice into video, music, non trad forms

“The sort of theatricality that can found in the work of Oldenburg, Morris, Nauman is fundamental for the reformulation of the project of sculpture: what is the object, how do we know it, and what does knowing it mean?

And in the attempt to discover what sculpture is, or what it could be, the theatre and its contribution with the context of the spectator as an instrument of destruction, investigation and reconstruction has been used.” Rosalind Krauss

“move towards the creations of forms of art that go beyond the confines of the sculptural object and enter the reconstruction of real like.” Simon Lodi