Where is the Future now?

Behind the glitter of spectacular distractions, a tendency toward banalization dominates modern society the world over, even where the more advanced forms of commodity consumption have seemingly multiplied the variety of roles and objects to choose from. The vestiges of religion and of the family, along with the vestiges of moral repression imposed by those two institutions, can be blended with ostentatious pretensions of worldly gratification precisely because life in this particular world remains repressive and offers nothing but pseudo-gratifications. Complacent acceptance of the status quo may also coexist with purely spectacular rebelliousness — dissatisfaction itself becomes a commodity as soon as the economy of abundance develops the capacity to process that particular raw material.

- Society of the Spectacle, chapter 3, 59

Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Referencing the Holocaust Memorial Installation

According to Eisenman's project text, the stelae are designed to produce an uneasy, confusing atmosphere, and the whole sculpture aims to represent a supposedly ordered system that has lost touch with human reason.



The memorial is a maze of 2,711 unadorned concrete rectangular slabs that cover a city block. The slabs tilt slightly at varying angles, and the ground rises and falls. Visitors must find their way through the labyrinth, designed to disorient them at every step. 

This could be an example of an installation that works within a scenario and creates an experience of it. The scenario being that of the holocaust and the experience is created through metaphors, through a selected form.
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  1. elf_asuraJuly 28, 2010 at 5:54 AM

    Yes, I feel that now you are on your way referencing other artists who have looked at boxes.

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