TATJANA Artkosmika

THE EVOLUTION OF SPECTACLE

Singularity is a symbolic acting, a collective acting.
Jean Baudrillard

THE EVOLUTION OF SPECTACLE is a research project about singular and collective identity - identity at large and particularly Dutch identity - in the public space. Public space is interpreted as Plato's cave in which shades of “the spectacle” are dancing on the wall. Rather than having division of the subject and the object, the point is to have the public space become the site of the blur and overlap of the individual and the public identity.
Tension is examined. Tension between aggressiveness and melancholy, between sublime and trash, aesthetics and obscene, between a subjective reality and a greater social awareness.
What is the Dutch identity? What does it mean? Can and should it be defined?

"The absence of human beings is only the naive absence of their bodies, which is substituted by the living mask of their condition. Physical nakedness of misery, metaphysical nakedness of its expression, photo-graphic nakedness of their reproduction. So the object brings back the subject to life not in its relative presence, but in its irreducible absence." (Baudrillard). Scenes in THE EVOLUTION OF SPECTACLE resemble well known imagery from the elaborate media coverage of the brutal murder of Dutch cineaste Theo van Gogh. Obscene, marginal and trivial is transformed into the haunting poetics of the singular aesthetics: police officers, forensic investigators, spectators, urban background...
THE EVOLUTION OF SPECTACLE is: bricolages, photographes, archives, paintings, drawings, collages, films, poetry, stories, plays, virtual surroundings...
(soon more to come...)

1275G164470 - II- FRONT Photograph of a found polaroid photograph Silverprint, 20 x 30 cm	1275G164470 - I- BACK Photograph of a found polaroid photograph Silverprint, 20 x 30 cm	THEO VAN GOGH - 9.42-1 Oil paint on board, 100 x 70 cm

THE EVOLUTION OF SPECTACLE Singularity is a symbolic acting, a collective acting. Jean Baudrillard THE EVOLUTION OF SPECTACLE is a research project about singular and collective identity - identity at large and particularly Dutch identity - in the public space. Public space is interpreted as Plato's cave in which shades of “the spectacle” are dancing on the wall. Rather than having division of the subject and the object, the point is to have the public space become the site of the blur and overlap of the individual and the public identity. Tension is examined. Tension between aggressiveness and melancholy, between sublime and trash, aesthetics and obscene, between a subjective reality and a greater social awareness. What is the Dutch identity? What does it mean? Can and should it be defined? "The absence of human beings is only the naive absence of their bodies, which is substituted by the living mask of their condition. Physical nakedness of misery, metaphysical nakedness of its expression, photo-graphic nakedness of their reproduction. So the object brings back the subject to life not in its relative presence, but in its irreducible absence." (Baudrillard). Scenes in THE EVOLUTION OF SPECTACLE resemble well known imagery from the elaborate media coverage of the brutal murder of Dutch cineaste Theo van Gogh. Obscene, marginal and trivial is transformed into the haunting poetics of the singular aesthetics: police officers, forensic investigators, spectators, urban background... THE EVOLUTION OF SPECTACLE is: bricolages, photographes, archives, paintings, drawings, collages, films, poetry, stories, plays, virtual surroundings... (soon more to come...)