“Three Stories About Love, Or Manipulating the Facts of the Past in the Name of A Better Future.” Article about contemporary art viewed through the lens of science fiction writer Stanisław Lem and sociologist and cultural theorist Jean Baudrillard.
Published in Studija 27, no. 6 (2002). In Latvian only.
View the article on Studija magazine online archive.
Article about contemporary art viewed through the lens of science fiction writer Stanisław Lem’s concept of synture - synthetic culture and sociologist and cultural theorist Jean Baudrillard's arguments about utopia in the age of media. Among the artists whose works I mention in the article are Ene-Liis Semper, Nan Goldin, John Currin, and Joel-Peter Witkin.
A still from Ene-Liis Semper, Oasis (video, 1999). View the video on Blinkvideo website.