The Performative Aesthetic of Kerry Tribe: A Conference with Juli Carson at CIA
May 26, 2011
El Centro de Investigaciones Artísticas (CIA)
Buenos Aires, Argentina
On May 26, 2011 Juli Carson spoke about HM (2009), a two-channel film installation by Kerry Tribe, as a key example of the “aesthetic criticism” in contemporary art. This work, a documentary, experimental and surreal at the same time – narrates the case study of “HM”, a patient who, in the 1950s, underwent experimental surgery to remove part of his brain to cure his epilepsy. After this treatment, it reduced his short-term memory, his ability to recall information was only for a short period of twenty seconds. To structurally evoke HM status in the viewer, the film’s narrative built by two adjacent projectors with an interval of twenty seconds between them. As Carson says: “In line with the best post-conceptualist artists, informed both tactics aesthetic of the ’60s and the ’80s psychoanalytic theory, the work of Tribe – poetic and political equality no lectures us about consciousness anomic. Rather, mechanism of forgetting is laid bare, and in a way so moving, so that can start a productive conversation about the real history and the role of artistic creation.”
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*Banner image: Kerry Tribe, HM, 2009. Double projection of a 16mm film, color, sound, 18:30 min. Image installation Arnolfini, Bristol.
About Juli Carson
Juli Carson, PhD in History, Theory and Art Criticism in the Program MIT Department of Architecture, is currently an Associate Professor at the University of California, Irvine (UCI) where she directs the MFA Critical and Curatorial Program and Gallery Art of the University. She is the author of Exile of the Imaginary: Politics, Aesthetics, Love (Vienna: Generali Foundation, 2007) and Post-Partum Document by Mary Kelly (Vienna: Generali Foundation, 1998). Her essays on conceptual art and psychoanalysis have been published in Art Journal, Documents, October, Texte zur Kunst and X-Tra as well as in numerous catalogs and international anthologies. Her latest book is The Limits of Representation: Psychoanalysis and Critical Aesthetics (Buenos Aires, Editorial Letra Viva, 2011).
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