ANDREW LAMPRECHT JONATHAN KOPE WHO'S ABJECT NOW BITCH? 25.AUG.10 KOPE LAMPRECHT |
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OH WOW, YOU’RE LETTING ME SHOW IN YOUR GALLERY? THE GALLERY I PRETTY
MUCH CONCEPTUALIZED WHILE I WAS IN BED WITH YOU? THAT’S AMAZING! AND YOU
WANT ME TO DO SOMETHING SLICK, THAT DOESN’T INTERRUPT YOUR WHITE CUBE
TOO MUCH. AWESOME! WHAT A WONDERFUL OPPORTUNITY…
COURTING, SEX AND LOVE RELATIONSHIPS ALL REVOLVE AROUND POWER RELATIONS. IN HETEROSEXUAL LOVE RELATIONSHIPS THIS EQUATES TO POWER RELATIONS BETWEEN MEN AND WOMEN – RELATIONS ECHOED NOT ONLY IN THE PERSONAL BUT ALSO THE POLITICAL, CULTURAL AND LEGAL SPHERES IN AN ESSENTIALLY HETERONORMATIVE AND PHALLOGOCENTRIC SOCIETY. DOES THIS MEAN THAT EVERY TIME WE (AS WOMAN) FALL IN LOVE (SWOONING, PINING AND ALL) WITH A MAN THAT WE ARE RE-ENFORCING THOSE POWER RELATIONS THAT ALLOW FOR PATRIARCHAL HEGEMONIES? IN ADMITTING THE VIOLENCE INHERENT IN RELATIONSHIPS AND IN SEX WITH MEN, AND YET STILL ENGAGING IN ITS PRACTICE, AM I (AS SUBJECT AND ARTIST) ALLOWING RAPE TO HAPPEN ELSEWHERE? IF “FOR A WOMAN, LOVE IS DEFINED AS HER WILLINGNESS TO SUBMIT TO HER OWN ANNIHILATION” (DWORKIN 1981: 80), THEN IS LOVE FELT BY A WOMAN ALWAYS INHERENTLY MASOCHISTIC? AND THEN IN LOVE, BUT WITHOUT SEXUAL SATISFACTION, ARE WE DESTINED TO BE FEARFUL, CHAOTIC AND HYSTERICAL AS OUR UTERI STRANGLE US IN REVOLT?) ANDREW LAMPRECHT AND JONATHAN KOPE’S WHO’S ABJECT NOW BITCH? OR, CRIME SCENE CONSISTENT WITH A PARTICULAR HOMICIDE ACKNOWLEDGES AND INTERRUPTS THE ARTWORLD BOYS’ CLUB THAT IS IN MANY WAYS EMBODIED BY YOUNGBLACKMAN, IN AN EXHIBITION THAT ADDRESSES THE DIFFICULTIES IN CLAIMING AGENCY AS A YOUNG MALE ARTIST. NOTES: DWORKIN, A. 1981. OUR BLOOD. LONDON: PERIGEE.   |
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