Inner disturbance
The following text describes the artwork shown in the image below. Does "disturbance" in this description mean "disorder and chaos"?
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Mike Kelley’s Craft Morphology Flow Chart, 1991, is a tongue-in-cheek monument to the idea of art as a substitute object that provides comfort in the face of death. Laid out on tables, his knitted toy-monkey dolls are reminiscent of corpses on mortuary slabs or museological artefacts awaiting classification and measurement. These objects do not meet our expectations of art objects as idealised representations, being secondhand toys plucked from the scrapheap of surplus production. Paradoxically, though, when I encountered this installation at the ICA, London, in 1993, I found it generative of that inner disturbance that characterises the second aspect of the death drive, the masochistic tendencies of the ego which Bersani situates on the side of the life force as unproductive expenditure rather than productive preservation.
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catttt The following text describes the artwork shown in the image below. Does "disturbance" in this description mean "disorder and chaos"? Hard to say, because the writer doesn't say.
- catttt The following text describes the artwork shown in the image below.
- Does "disturbance" in this description mean "disorder and chaos"?
- Hard to say, because the writer doesn't say.
- In the ordinary sense of the word, it means a disruption, an unsmoothness.
- Humpty-Dumpty said that defining words in only a matter of who is to be master, you or the word.
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cattttThe following text describes the artwork shown in the image below. Does "disturbance" in this description mean "disorder and chaos"?
Hard to say, because the writer doesn't say. In the ordinary sense of the word, it means a disruption, an unsmoothness. Humpty-Dumpty said that defining words in only a matter of who is to be master, you or the word. Thi
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