George Bataille on the LA Freeway: The Public Art Work of Luther Thie By Frederick Young What immediately strikes one about Luther Thie’s LA Interchange is the scope and magnitude of the project, a real-time memorial to automobile crash victims sited right at the heart of America’s freeway system. Thie’s proposed public artwork invokes the ghosts of numerous important critical theorists of the 20th and 21st centuries, most notably Bataille and his concept of sacrifice, and presents a way to […]
Diorama peep show, inspired by Marcel Duchamp’s “Étant donnés (Given: 1 The Waterfall, 2. The Illuminating Gas,” serves as a model to propose a re-creation of the scene depicted in the “Svetlana & Jim” series of found photographs.
Charcoal on paper, 59″ x 83″ with accompanying video loop 56 seconds, video installation. More drawings and video from this series.
