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===The Changing Face of Symbolically Charged Objects=== | ===The Changing Face of Symbolically Charged Objects=== | ||
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In the video work from Guy Ben-Ner, ''I'd Give It To You If I Could But I Borrowed It'', the artist and his kids rummage through a museum and assemble a bicycle from several readymade sculptures, set all the readymade sculpture piece back to its original shape, which the artist reversed the process of Duchamp’s. The exchange value that Duchamp and other artists provides to these readymade, are turned back to its use value in his piece. The way to make new connection, to bring new symbolic knowledge here, is to displace them, to subvert them, but for very different purpose as Duchamp were for. In this piece, Guy Ben-Ner is dealing with the surplus value that those objects acquire as readymade in a museum. For me, it is a reactivation of antidote that Dutchamp did in his time.<br> | In the video work from Guy Ben-Ner, ''I'd Give It To You If I Could But I Borrowed It'', the artist and his kids rummage through a museum and assemble a bicycle from several readymade sculptures, set all the readymade sculpture piece back to its original shape, which the artist reversed the process of Duchamp’s. The exchange value that Duchamp and other artists provides to these readymade, are turned back to its use value in his piece. The way to make new connection, to bring new symbolic knowledge here, is to displace them, to subvert them, but for very different purpose as Duchamp were for. In this piece, Guy Ben-Ner is dealing with the surplus value that those objects acquire as readymade in a museum. For me, it is a reactivation of antidote that Dutchamp did in his time.<br> | ||
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====Conclusion==== | ====Conclusion==== | ||
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