Jim Skuldt
Broken Promises
March 7 - April 18, 2009
2nd Cannons Publications Gallery
BIO from HERE:
Jim Skuldt
(Born 1970, Minnesota, USA)
Skuldt received his MFA from CalArts in 2005. He attended the Triangle France residency (Marseille) in 2006 and was awarded the California Community Foundation Emerging Artists Fellowship and the Durfee Foundation ARC Grant the following year. His work has appeared in venues including Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LA), the Museum of Contemporary Art (LA), Art in General (NY), the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts (NY), the High Desert Test Sites, and Friche la Belle de Mai (Marseille). Skuldt lives and works in a former meat-packing plant in Los Angeles, a site in the 2008 California Biennial.
Posts
18 comments:
An artist chasing his tail. Lame and boring.
@ Anonymous:
His art is highly conceptual, which requires interpretation. If you are devoid of imagination this can sound boring to you. The main focus in this type of art is the concept, and you need to look deeper and see beyond the reality.
I can totally see how someone could start seeing their own flaws in this. You think it's the exponent, where it's plainly you.
I know if I try harder, I write a lot better, but for some reason, I learned how to like myself as an underperformer, and I don't care if that's what you don't want me to be...cause, in reality, you do.
I think this exponent represents time, the 4th dimension, as a space-like dimension with an indefinite number of universes all alongside of each other, as there is for an indefinite number of sheets of paper when we pile them upon each other.
By entering this dimension, you enable yourself to travel between parallel universes, in which you exist as a separate person, though slightly different.
The histories in these parallel universes can be similar, or they may be similar until a certain divergence point, where the outcomes become completely different.
This idea makes me question my entire existence. Great job!
The divergence point (elbow) occurred in 2002. The other timeline might've been or is interesting.
This is what my timeline looks like:
....................2002...........................................................................................................2008................................................................................................................................................2013
Please love me unconditionally...
Did the guy go suddenly manic in 2002-2005, to the point that he had to go back in time?...
How about this type of timeline portrayal:
.........2002...........2008 2008..........................2013
Or this:
2002
2001
2008
2013
2008
2002
The pile of paper can also represent evolution, the progression from less to more, showing that there is really no purpose for this. It is meant to waste your time.
The three different paper pile sizes can represent parallel dimensions of universes, where you begin in the smallest one, and then pass through an inter-dimensional or inter-universal portal into a bigger dimension or universe, where everything is a level harder, and it can go on and on like this for eternity.
This exhibition makes me wonder: Where am I? Who am I? And what am I doing?......
Why did you stop??? (sort of thing)
This can also represent the evolutionary phenomenon in terms of the progression from bigger to smaller. For instance, the earliest life forms, like dinosaurs, were the biggest animals that have ever lived on earth. Modern animals are much smaller in size, and have more efficient bodies.
It's interesting how he put 1965 before his year of birth as if he lived before he was born.
From the divergence point, one person goes north and the other one goes south. Wouldn't it be interesting to see what the two have evolved into?
According to my scientific prediction, we'll be getting to the main point "(&^%)^%$_&*^%" pretty soon...
You know that you'll never get fat or thick, if you lose the awareness of time. In this case, time won't be dragging you into thickness or aged end.
I think this can also mean the more you learn the less you know. The harder you try, the less you need, until you ultimately reach the point where you know everything and nothing at the same time.
Broken promises can mean that the society imposes all these things on you since the day you're born, and then discards you brutally, just like that, until you finally realize that you didn't need to go through all that in order to survive, and have a nice life.
Is this the theory of everything?...Seems like an interesting take on the concept - even though everything does not equal everything, it does not matter, as long as you know how to cut corners.:)
Isn't it amazing that people consider you nothing unless you prove to them that you're worth something. It ironic that you have to prove to unworthy people that you're worth something. What are you trying so hard to prove to people right now?
...Oh, I forgot that they might actually label me a "dog" for talking about them like this.
Jim...are you dead?
I wonder, if you actually feel more exploited than a slave does, if you've earned millions or billions for all your hard work, trying to prove to someone that you can live up to their standards, and then fail to spend all that money because of your limited capacity to absorb the stuff you can buy with it. I would feel like a total idiot in a situation like that. Wouldn't you feel like you tried a little too hard?...Hehehehehe
Looks like he cracked time travel. First, you get hypermanic, then you spin into psychosis, which may land you in the twilight zone (don't be surprised). Then you start going back and forth in time among many other things... Try and say something stigmatizing about mental illness one more time after learning about this kind of stuff, right?!...Pick the right nerd next time, it'll save you < hell< of a lot of.....time.:)
Post a Comment