Discord PP

By M. Powell

1. Bruce Nauman
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDuvLc_FAXE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxoHuVeNwUI&feature=related
While it's easy to tell that these clowns are only acting-out traumas, it is nevertheless difficult
to watch and purposefully so. "Clown Torture" makes the viewer question his or her own
participation in the events on screen. Alluding to difficult subjects such as insanity, political
torture, and surveillance, the work makes complex connections between theatre, media, and
apathy The makeup, hair, and costume of each clown act as a disguise for the actor or person
underneath. Anonymous victims and inciters of brutality and pranks, these scared and scary
clowns seem simultaneously real and unreal.
Clash of opposites Funny / Sinister

2. Immo Klink
London based photographer and
artist Immo Klink is a critical
observer of social and political
trends in his environment. Cultural
globalization, consumerism, the
ubiquity of advertising, privatization
of public space, surveillance and
private security
Cheap / Expensive

3. Daniele Buetti
Since the late 80s, swiss artist Daniele
Buetti works with the signs and codes of
our surrounding which is dominated by
brands. He became famous with his
manipulations of photographs taken from
lifestyle and fashion magazines. He scribbles
the names of fashion companies like Nike
Armani, Gucci, Chanel etc. The scribbled
brands remind us of tattoos, abscesses or
scars and the models become less perfect.
‘Versace’, 2003
‘A Taste For Luxury …’, 2008
Beautiful / Ugly

4. Guy Bourdin
Glamour / Horror

5. Catherine Yass
Yass specialises in exploring the
psychology of spaces, and in 1994
worked in a psychiatric hospital in
south London to produce a series
of eight lightboxes called Corridor,
which were eerie representations
of institutional space.
Private / Public

6. Religious controversy.
Andreas Serrano
Serrano depicts a confluence of
religious iconography and bodily fluids.
Sam Taylor Wood

7. Prisoner at Abu Ghraib, 2004
Robert Capa:
‘Death of a Loyalist Soldier’, 1936
Dorothea Lange
‘Migrant Mother’, 1936

8. Curtesy of http://images.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://3quarksdaily.blogs.com

9. Jo Spence
Inner Conflicts
Marlene Dumas
‘For Whom the Bell Tolls’, 2008

10. Fragments
Kilian Breier
Abstract textures and patterns.

11. Aaron Siskind
Chicago 27, 1960
Figure vs Antifigure
Some work presents details of nature
and architecture. He presents them
as flat surfaces to create a new image
out of them, which, he claimed, stands
independent of the original subject.

12. Social Discord
Gilbert and George
In Dirty Word Pictures, 1977 made in the Jubilee year, obscene graffiti is combined with
documentary-style images showing the cityscape, black youths and policemen, evoking
racial tensions, street violence and mounting unease within British society at the time.
The images included in the work suggest urban alienation and more general issues of
surveillance within the city.

13. High Contrast
Jean Marc Bustamante
Moholy Nagy
Man Ray

14. Task:
Photograph pairs of images that illustrate opposites.
Pairs included in the powerpoint:
Figure vs Antifigure
Private vs Public
Beautiful vs Ugly
Other pairs you may consider:
Order vs Chaos
Apart vs Together
Arrive vs Leave
Defence vs Attack
Different vs Alike
Division vs Unity