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Next Epsiode: #504 Systems
Tue, Nov. 24 at 8 p.m.
What new grammars and logics do artists invent in today's supercharged, information-based society? Why do we find comfort in some systems while rebelling against others? This episode features artists who realize complex projects, whether through acts of appropriation, accumulation, or creating projects so vast in scope as to elude comprehension. Synthesizing photomontage, painting, and language, John Baldessari's deadpan visual juxtapositions equate images with words and illuminate, confound, and challenge meaning. Kimsooja's videos and installations blur the boundaries between aesthetics and transcendent experience through their use of repetitive actions, practices, and forms. Applying strategies of mass production to hand-made objects, Allan McCollum questions the intrinsic value of the unique work of art in a society awash in consumption. Julie Mehretu's paintings and drawings reference elements of mapping and architecture to achieve an abstract, calligraphic complexity that resembles turbulent atmospheres and dense social networks.
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