Dreaming Red by Linda Pace

Author:Linda Pace [Pace, Linda; Russell, Jan Jarboe; Heartney, Eleanor; Kanjo, Kathryn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781595341976
Publisher: Trinity University Press

T.W. (Shoot), 1998. 12 hanging television monitors, VCRs, and video compilations. Dimensions vary. Installation view

Geers’s attempt to transform the gallery into the street is influenced, in part, by John Cage’s use of everyday sounds in his musical compositions and by Allan Kaprow’s writings on the blurring of the boundaries between art and everyday life. As Jeff Kelley points out, Kaprow’s arguments deal with “the changing nature of experience with the rise and proliferation of mass ‘communications’ technologies, and the corresponding ascendancy of the ‘image’ in both art and communal—or at least commercial—life.”1 Kaprow is critical of the formalism of the fragmented video-image presentation in gallery spaces, seeing it as a metaphor for interactivity rather than the real experience of interactivity itself. Although Geers’s video installation follows a conventional formalist format, its self-reflexive critique of American mass culture and the banality of its attendant violence refuses interactivity altogether. The noisy repulsion of T.W. (Shoot) recalls Nauman’s aggressive installation Get Out of My Mind, Get Out of This Room (1968), in which the viewer is pushed out of an enclosed space by the sound of Nauman’s voice angrily instructing him or her to leave the room and his mind, for which the space becomes a metaphor. But unlike Nauman’s spoken aggression, Geers’s alienation of the viewer takes place on an impersonal level, via the mass-media language of commercial television and MTV. The threat of individual invasion is replaced by the literal intrusion of contemporary media culture, in one of its most violent forms.

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