Objective Confess
@ Golden Gallery
3319 N Broadway
Opening Saturday, September 24th, from 6PM - 6PM
On view through Saturday, November 5th
Golden Gallery is pleased to present the opening of its fourth season with a solo exhibition by Australian artist Anthea Behm. This exhibition features a 2010 – 2011 video work based around two scripts: one adapted from Aesthetic Theory (1970), Frankfurt School Philosopher Theodor Adorno’s epic, posthumously published thesis on aesthetics, and the other from John Hughes’ legendary movie Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1986), which follows the activities of three truants, led by Bueller, spending the day in downtown Chicago.
Filmed on location in the public and gallery spaces of the Art Institute of Chicago, the looped video stages a dynamic encounter between both texts via a series of performances that presents and merges the two scripts in perpetual motion. Through this encounter, the video both rehearses and problematizes the categories of ‘high’ and ‘popular’ culture as they are conventionally defined, and demonstrates the contradictions inherent within each text.
Simultaneously dramatizing and destabilizing the categories that continue to inform and delineate our conceptions of social, cultural and artistic production, the video formally manifests the contradictions embedded in such categorical divisions and the possible ways in which they are necessarily maintained or dissolved. The resulting critical intervention into the accepted ‘sense’ of each text is at once hostile yet harmonious, inarticulate yet eloquent, confounding yet clarifying. A similar logic is at play in the accompanying diagrams and photographic work, which have been abstracted/extracted from the video itself.
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Saturdays, 12-6
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