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Holy Fools
Above: 'Door (Jessie Pierrot)' and 'The Tyger (Rachel Auguste)' film stills.
So, it’s kind of a coincidence that MoMA is showing it now.
It is a coincidence, but my show being timed with the opening isn’t a coincidence—that was important to me, to have Holy Fools up at the same time as Disappearing Acts, the Nauman retrospective, because I wanted to, one, give viewers the opportunity to compare and contrast the works; two, I thought it would be potentially good press for my show; and three, I didn’t want to look too derivative or as though his retrospective had inspired my idea, which might have been how it seemed had I gone with a gallery or a show date which would have been long after the retrospective ended.
At the Art Institute of Chicago, I looked at all of the DVDs, all of the interactions that they had access to with Nauman and his makeup artists, the reviews that had come out the first time ‘Clown Torture’ premiered, original installation layouts, negatives—basically everything that’s out there that’s not on the internet was there.
Something really resonated with me about the idea of self-inflicted torture, which is the premise of ‘Clown Torture’—it felt, in a way, like an analogy to the art-making process—very masochistic and tedious. I al
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The Lovers Table: Ondine Viñao
• [Dish] Tamarind chutney, eggs, fried chicken, swiss chard, a loaf of bread, apple. What would you do with these ingredients if you weren't allowed to eat them?
Give everything except the apple to those who are allowed to eat them, and turn the apple into a pipe.
• [Time] What do you remember that you wish you forgot? What had you forgotten that you wished you remember?
I am quite talented already at forgetting things I don’t want to remember. Not necessarily the healthiest coping mechanism but nonetheless one I possess. That being said, I often have very vivid and disturbing nightmares that I can recall clearly. There’s a few in particular that I haven’t been able to shake – I’m very frightened of the “deep sea” and creatures that live at the bottom of the ocean, and I’ve had many dreams in which I’m forced to interact with these Satanic, massive monster-fish. Tuna is still my favorite food though.
This “talent” goes both ways – my memory in general is not the best, so there is much I’d like to remember. I’ve recently tried hypnosis recordings aimed at recalling childhood memories, but so far they’ve been futile...
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