Public Artwork
ICONOCLASH : NIGHT of AWE DANCE PARTY
Artwork creator(s):
Shiff, Melissa
Text author(s):
Shiff, Melissa
Installation year:
2007
Remarks on location:
B7 on the business card of the event (Area B, exhibition number 7). Level Grange Road. Located at the North end of the park.
Description:
This installation pairs iconic movie scenes with a multicultural music mix to create an interactive dance party. The audience is superimposed onto these scenes via technology, provoking a reflection on issues of visual representation.
Text of the artwork:
The monotheistic god of the second commandment plumbs for abstraction so that He can demand a new discipline to be enforced on His subjects alone- The paradoxical result Is not NO image It is instead the image of abstraction that is to be produced. Caroline Jones Making Abs […] -- MY CULTURE IS YOUR FETIS[H] -- […] residing […] of a cow […] -- "come worship ye the Golden god of pleasure! [for he is] of Israel" -- The term "idol" in the Western context has always been used to refer to deities in pagan religions. In "idolatry" the agency of the person is thought to be displaced, irrationally, into the agency of the thing. But in polytheistic traditions, the deity is not a thing : the image, icon, or representation Is animated by the […] -- For Judaism, The desire to index Divinity With the Golden Calf Can be viewed as an ethical […]
Text theme:
Judaism, religious tensions, idolatry
Artwork theme:
Judaism, religious tensions, idolatry
Artist's biography:
Shiff, Melissa Document(s):
Syndicate
