1/6/2024 0 Comments Company of heros 2 wallpaperLike Taylor Swift, I actually hardly know anything about her, but the sense I get is that her initial appeal was of someone who was approachable. ![]() KG: Well, people have become more sophisticated about branding themselves, and using elements of vulnerability. But now, four decades later, when everyone is in a sense constantly performing, how does that dynamic change? Do performers still have the same resonance they once did? ![]() How the performer makes themselves vulnerable to the public and the risk inherent in that is what makes the experience of seeing a gig so ecstatic. In it, you wrote about the power dynamics at play between a performer, their media image and the audience during a live performance. W*: Looking at the show made me think about an essay you wrote for ArtForum back in 1983 called ‘I’m really scared when I kill in my dreams’. It’s more a person’s choice that tells you something rather than what they’re shooting. So it's kind of covering up just by what it's not showing. You don’t have a sense of context, really. But, you don't have a sense of the scale of anything. I guess that the thing is that everything looks better on an iPhone, including some of my art I think. ![]() It was kind of funny how they're abstract and basically anti-painting but some people look at them and say, ‘Oh, it looks like skyscrapers.’ People always want to see something and that's kind of interesting – that they're looking at a shape that's basically empty but yet they see a city. W*: Did making the pieces give you new insight into how our technology is impacting our culture? (Image credit: Photography: Justin Craun.
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