Why Jenny Holzer’s Inflammatory Essays matter
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Why Jenny Holzer’s Inflammatory Essays matter
To work in performance was to stick two fingers up to the art establishment: it can’t be preserved on a canvas – only on film, but that’s not the same thing.
Lauren Elkin • Art Monsters: Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art
The form of the protest—the bizarre blood sculpture, the poems—was itself a protest against passivity, lack of imagination, and normalcy.
Lola Milholland • Group Living and Other Recipes: A Memoir
Art can be an emotional trigger for larger and deeper dialogues. It can blur the boundaries between things, the boundaries between us and the boundaries between the world and self. Still we rarely see art and economy as subjects deeply unified in the same study or mechanism.