Word: hazing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...both a reflection of and a reaction to Zoo TV, which uses giant video screens, satellite technology and automobiles swinging from cranes to evoke the surrealist, fast-forward distortion of the digitalized global village. In the title track, garbled voices, piano and a pulsing bass emerge from a haze of static like a radio receiver tuning in to a distant signal...
This past month I've felt as though I were watching my last 30 days of childhood slipping by hour by hour. Granted, it's been a very pleasant slippage, viewed through a haze of Bloody Marys, long afternoons on the patio of Shay's and late-night stumblings back to Eliot House...
...somehow causing the death of their son. This self-knowledge pervades the stunning finale. The husband has retreated to the Mexican inn where the couple spent their honeymoon. As he waits, on the traditional Day of the Dead, hoping his wife will come to him, she appears behind the haze of a scrim and lights a candle for her son and all the victims of her husband's ambition. But she does not come in. Instead, two sides of a wall close slowly, slowly, and cut her off -- perhaps for now, perhaps forever...
...tonal structure, and at the same time so natural and unpretentious in their expression, that you feel included in the meetings they depict. Daumier's line is always in motion, and startlingly responsive to the perceived moment. It is rarely just an outline: it surrounds the form with the haze of energy, made up of scribbled marks, suggestions and hints. It is the record of a sensibility that continually probes and is always correcting itself in nuances. In other hands, such ambiguity would seem fluttering. In Daumier's, it is the signature of an explosive, unappeasable vitality...
...prices down with it. Now the same system, bruised but essentially unchanged, is trying to revalidate those prices in hard times by strumming on the theme that Victimhood Is Powerful. What has descended on Basquiat is not the "silent purple toga of Immortality" -- it's the loud purple haze of hype, all over again...