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...latest object of this salty dog's amour was tragically dumped two years, ago, and wherever there's a roadkill on the Highway of Love, you can bet that the Captain XY, Esq.--"The Love Vulture"--is making those lazy circles in the sky! Capt...
What, If Anything, Is an Object...
Organized by Clive Dilnot, Associate Professor of Visual and Environmental Studies, the show's title says it all: "What' If Anything, Is an Object?" Exploring the work objects, however, is a risky business, and the show can at times seem a bit preachy and somewhat heavy-handed. Despite the daunting breadth of its content and purpose it holds together remarkably well and is ultimately quite effective...
...gallery has been organized along two axes, crossing the room diagonally. At the end of each, in the corners, are the "four key moments in the workings of objects:" representation, cognition, decoration, and function. The axes themselves radiate from the center as "human form" (towards representation), "mediator's (towards cognition), "vessels" (towards decoration), and "tools" (towards function). These are the basic pillars, it seems of the condition of being an object, and in between the four major "moments" there lies "fetishism, aura, measurement, and embellishment." This might seem like a lot to swallow on a leisurely visit to the Fogg...
...world in which the role of objects defines more than we might care to admit, the various categories in which we fit objects can at times seem impregnable fortresses. "What, If Anything, In an Object?" seems to take these categories and expose the considerable fluidity inherent in each. And so the objects in the show force themselves out of their boxes and shed the constraints of their condition. Compelled to re-examine the relationship between object and between ourselves and the object world, we reach new conclusions about the way in which objects exist and about what...