Autotheory: Hiba Ali, Madelyne Beckles, Thirza Cuthand, Andrew James Paterson, Evan Tyler, Allyson Mitchell, Deirdre Logue
Vtape, Toronto
November 20, 2018–January 26, 2019
That language is a structure of power is obvious to anyone who’s had an encounter with Foucauldian theory. That the previous sentence is a performance of said power locates a paradoxical problem at the centre of theory-based practices: by the same token that language provides a stage to give voice, it alienates, excludes or subjugates its practitioners. “That’s what I don’t like about art,” my roommate says when I tell him about the exhibition I’m writing about. “Like, only art people will get it. It’s just a circle jerk.” “No, but the show is commenting on that,” I say, kind of annoyed. “There’s, like, a lot of self-reflexivity.”
“I never wanted to be wrong about the artist’s intent and so I would read (2011), the first of seven videos curated by Lauren Fournier in . “I would take notes in my Moleskine black book. You know, big words and key phrases, things that I could incorporate in my own dialogue with contemporary culture.” This hits home—there are a lot of tabs open on my computer: [Krauss_VideoN][Full text of “Ti][Butler (200] [Autotheory-by-][Facebo][Preliminary Ma][Vttape|The].
