Harry McAlpine
I Like Technology and Technology Likes Me*
Charcoal on cotton mat
1000 x 800mm
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Like Technology and Technology Likes Me (pictured) is an homage to Joseph Beuys 1974 performance work I Like America and America Likes Me. “The artist spent three consecutive...
Like Technology and Technology Likes Me (pictured) is an homage to Joseph Beuys 1974 performance work I Like America and America Likes Me.
“The artist spent three consecutive days in a room with a coyote, performing various symbolic gestures such as cloaking himself like a shepheard and gesticulating with a wooden cane…. I always found the photographs of the performance more powerful than the performance itself. Rather than a wild coyote indoors we see an industrial heater outdoors, fuelling itself with Beuys’ cloak” writes Harry.
Generally Beuys’ ‘social sculptures’ aimed to heal societal wounds where as McAlpine’s drawings tends to offer insight into coping mechanisms and questionable social behaviours. In the age of entertainment, distraction, and resulting apathy, McAlpine's work serves a contemporary rendering of the common idiom: to bury one’s head in the sand. Delivered via his mechanistic hand - McAlpine’s dystopian drawings continue to explore the human psyche in his typical style: absurd, hyperbolic, even Orwellian.
“The artist spent three consecutive days in a room with a coyote, performing various symbolic gestures such as cloaking himself like a shepheard and gesticulating with a wooden cane…. I always found the photographs of the performance more powerful than the performance itself. Rather than a wild coyote indoors we see an industrial heater outdoors, fuelling itself with Beuys’ cloak” writes Harry.
Generally Beuys’ ‘social sculptures’ aimed to heal societal wounds where as McAlpine’s drawings tends to offer insight into coping mechanisms and questionable social behaviours. In the age of entertainment, distraction, and resulting apathy, McAlpine's work serves a contemporary rendering of the common idiom: to bury one’s head in the sand. Delivered via his mechanistic hand - McAlpine’s dystopian drawings continue to explore the human psyche in his typical style: absurd, hyperbolic, even Orwellian.
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