Fucktopia

Titel of the show:
"The illusion community: Fucktopia"

Fucktopia is neither tranquilized utopic nor is it monstrously dystopic, it is a multiplication of dystopia and utopia ad infinitum. From Palton´s "Republic" to the "world of warcraft" and back to Antlantis over 1984.
It is very improbable and utterly chaotic but realized in a very orderly way and with a cool set of methods. The word fucktopia has sexual implication, evidently, as every great work of art has to be sexy in its very own way.

Fucktopia is an illusion:
The theme/subtitle guiding us through this is the following headline "on the harmful effects of the use of illusion in Art".
Illusions are omnipresent in art, from the self-deluision of the artist, very common are self-images of grandeur/inferiority, over to the nature of represention itself, to the visual illusion itself, for example the famous "M.C. Escher´s infinite staircase".

Why the illusion of the illusion?:
As soon as we can perceive it (the illusion), it is no longer illusory but is part of our reality. Nietzsche called this the "der Schein des Scheins" roughly translated as the "seeming of the illusory" short: illusions are real, they just seem unreal. This is the healing aspect of the installation, setting the head back straight on the shoulders. Illusions just seem to be wrong, but they are right in their wrongness.

The set-up grosso modo:
We will use a series of head as links inside a chain, linking several vitrines with various kinds of installations and exhibits. Please refer to the rough scetch of the set-up.

Why we use heads!:
Because as art theorists point out very accurately, when we look at a work of art, we "feel ourselves into it" by imagining our body in the posture of a nonhuman or inanimate object in the work of art.
We put ideas or objects into words or containers likes works of art, and then send them along a channel, or conduit, to an auditor who takes that idea or object out of the container and makes meaning and feeling of it. In other words, art is something that ideas and feelings go into. The container is separate from the ideas themselves.
Which makes the whole installation very tautological, which is a good thing, as all great works of art are tautologies, nearly.
The idea of containing an illusion is contained in the head as an idea, represented by a chain of heads, we "feel ourselves into", creating an illusion by doing so. It is a whole chain of events going on inside the heads and outside our heads, which are linked to a chain.

Dec. 2011
Ansan