Evil Clown Tortures Clown And The Audience
The Modern Art Of Scatology
Bruce Nauman, Clown Torture: Clown Taking a Shit, 1987:
http://www.pbase.com/image/8993565
The noise is chaotic and deafening.
A disoriented and devastating exhibition of motion and color to the point of overload and abstraction.
Elliptical Clown: Pete and Repeat were sitting on a fence. Pete fell off; who was left? Repeat.
If this isn’t bad enough.
With one monitor turned upside-down and the other placed on its side, the images become abstracted and disorienting.
A screaming clown, hurling agony at an anonymous torturer, you the viewer?
Failing Clown balancing goldfish bowls and water pails.
Clown taking dump in public restroom.
Wow, that’s deep.
I now find myself question my complicity in ‘Clown Torture’.
And despite the headache I find the ‘works’ alluding to insanity, political torture, surveillance, the fakery if reality TV, Abu Ghraib disguises and the brutality of anonymity and pranks is making complex crystallizations in my mind.
A yawning chasm opens and I see connections between history and theatre, a clown taking a crap and the casual cruelty of empires.
Sure.
How much did I pay at the door?
Litotes The Clown
The Practice of Coercion
Coercive procedures are designed to exploit the resistant source's internal conflicts and induce him to wrestle with himself and bring a superior outside force to bear upon the subject's resistance.
Success rise steeply if the coercive technique is matched to the source's personality. Individuals react differently even to such seemingly non-discriminatory stimuli as drugs. Moreover, it is a waste of time and energy to apply strong pressures on a hit-or-miss basis if a tap on the psychological jugular will produce compliance.
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Image Incredulous
Bruce Nauman, Clown Torture: Clown Taking a Shit, 1987
http://www.pbase.com/image/8993565
He studied mathematics and physics at the University of Wisconsin, and art with William T. Wiley and Robert Arneson at the University of California in Davis.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Nauman
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Bruce Nauman, Clown Torture: Clown Taking a Shit, 1987:
http://www.pbase.com/image/8993565
The noise is chaotic and deafening.
A disoriented and devastating exhibition of motion and color to the point of overload and abstraction.
Elliptical Clown: Pete and Repeat were sitting on a fence. Pete fell off; who was left? Repeat.
If this isn’t bad enough.
With one monitor turned upside-down and the other placed on its side, the images become abstracted and disorienting.
A screaming clown, hurling agony at an anonymous torturer, you the viewer?
Failing Clown balancing goldfish bowls and water pails.
Clown taking dump in public restroom.
Wow, that’s deep.
I now find myself question my complicity in ‘Clown Torture’.
And despite the headache I find the ‘works’ alluding to insanity, political torture, surveillance, the fakery if reality TV, Abu Ghraib disguises and the brutality of anonymity and pranks is making complex crystallizations in my mind.
A yawning chasm opens and I see connections between history and theatre, a clown taking a crap and the casual cruelty of empires.
Sure.
How much did I pay at the door?
The Practice of Coercion
Coercive procedures are designed to exploit the resistant source's internal conflicts and induce him to wrestle with himself and bring a superior outside force to bear upon the subject's resistance.
Success rise steeply if the coercive technique is matched to the source's personality. Individuals react differently even to such seemingly non-discriminatory stimuli as drugs. Moreover, it is a waste of time and energy to apply strong pressures on a hit-or-miss basis if a tap on the psychological jugular will produce compliance.
-----
Image Incredulous
Bruce Nauman, Clown Torture: Clown Taking a Shit, 1987
http://www.pbase.com/image/8993565
He studied mathematics and physics at the University of Wisconsin, and art with William T. Wiley and Robert Arneson at the University of California in Davis.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Nauman
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