🔞Have you ever seen anything like this? 💺Anna Uddenberg continental breakfast.A Performance.
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- Опубликовано: 5 окт 2024
- 🔞Have you ever seen anything like this? 💺Anna Uddenberg continental breakfast. A Performance.#modernart #art #annauddenberg #continentalbreakfast
Descending the stairs and dirty brown hallway to the two-room Upper East Side basement dwelling that is Meredith Rosen Gallery engenders an air of willing abjection before even entering Anna Uddenberg’s solo exhibition, Continental Breakfast, that features three pseudo-functional contraptions in a white-walled, blue-carpeted, drop ceiling-adorned space with florescent lights that feels like the prelude to a high-class murder.
During the exhibition opening, performers Sally von Rosen and Mădălina Stănescu, dressed in pencil-skirt suits with slicked-back hair, corralled the crowd and took turns mounting and dismounting Uddenberg’s sculptures. Despite their indiscernible use, these objects look like they would be at home in airplanes, hotels, or hospitals, as they possess a certain anesthetic and thus foreboding quality that suggests contractual consent and the abdication of liability. I was not present for this event, but Uddenberg told Cultured that “it was dead silent. I was kind of shocked at how obedient everybody was.” The crowd consequently submitted to the performers, and the performers to the sculptures, much like a stewardess demonstrating the use of an airplane seatbelt and oxygen mask. She may tell us what to do, and we may cower under her gaze, but she’s ultimately beholden to the same strictures of our shared environment, and there’s something perversely arousing about watching her-our symbol of authority-also submit to the inanimate objects that, however briefly, structure our existence.
Perhaps this reflects a certain ingrained patriarchal thinking, but while I bristle at the idea that propriety should dictate the appropriateness of our fantasies, I also can’t help but think that there’s something deeply perverse (and less fun) about, for example, a work like Jordan Wolfson’s animatronic (Female figure) (2014). Who am I, though, to make such a judgment, between normal and abnormal fetishization? Colin Wilson writes in The Misfits: A Study of Sexual Outsiders that “in human beings sexuality has evolved to a higher level, a ‘symbolic’ level”1 beyond such binaries, whereby it is rather an idea or a product of the imagination that truly stimulates desire. Somehow the crude physicality of Wolfson’s robotic woman betrays the less-than-sexy mechanics of copulation in a degradation of fantasy-do you not also feel a sort of shame watching this poor blighted figure, or perhaps guilt in your enjoyment of it?
Much of Uddenberg’s past work is, indeed, far more overt in its hyper-sexualization of the female body, arranging it in contorted positions on, or perhaps even as, furniture. But by replacing the mannequins of earlier projects with either a live performer or an absence, the three sculptures on view at Meredith Rosen incite a far more visceral excitement and fear. Uddenberg has thus evaded such obvious pitfalls into which Wolfson falls, leaving viewers not guilt-ridden but instead caught between the conflicting feelings of empowerment and an unabashed desire to be dominated by these devices and the people that operate them.
Titled T-Top Tummy Tuck, Premium Economy I, and Premium Economy II (all 2023), Uddenberg’s three sculptures possess an aspirational aesthetic of the nineties, wherein the technological abilities of the present hadn’t caught up with the hyper-mechanized futurity that airplanes and medical facilities wished to convey. So in essence they pretend: a veritable Easy-Bake Oven for consumers of a maligned industry-was I the only child eternally frustrated by the performance of functionality, who despised toys that mimicked adulthood while withholding it, and who simultaneously believed that if I imagined hard enough such mute objects might come to life in a real way? They could not, and I quickly abandoned the attempt.
If I wasn’t to be fooled then, why should Uddenberg’s sculptures-which I can neither touch nor “use”-prove so relentlessly captivating?
I’ll never be a supermodel with a metal exoskeleton, assless chaps, platform Crocs, and a pompom-adorned selfie stick, but I can easily imagine being buckled into Premium Economy I or II. It is thus the very banal nature of these contraptions, the vague plausibility that you could one day encounter them without the distance that art prescribes, that makes them so believable and, let’s say, distracting. Is this a future we’re fated to manifest?
In one sense, Uddenberg’s sculptures may suggest that we’re on a path to enacting a sci-fi dystopia like the lair of Dune's perverse Harkonnen family or a stage for Mortensen and Seydoux’s performances in Cronenberg's Crimes of the Future (2022), with these contraptions serving as the lo-fi prelude to a future-space where pleasure and pain blur in a body-
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the cameraman knew what he was doing at the beginning
Come on man. If any person actually claimed that their mind NEVER went to, you know where....theyre a got darn lie😂😂
Was thinking 🤔 this be great to bring back the spice in myne and Mrs sex life , haha 😂 then I remember that's my Mrs im on about show her this, I'll be black bagged real quick and called a pervert 😮😂😂 ffs
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I wonder what qualifications were required for the position??? 😂 and work history 😂
Well, Uddenberg is as much an artist as I am a billionaire.
😂😂so when we gonna see this on the hub 😮
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I busted for sure
from what i’m getting there’s a few perspectives. one is that in airplanes we are in a controlled environment and although not comfy we adapt to it anyway, or women are sexualized even when out in a uncomfy space. have you seen all the men in the comments actually get aroused by the art? men can walk through museo del prado and still not get aroused even though sculptures are naked but when a real life woman gets in a position hand in hand with technology they can’t stop talking about the position and making sexual jokes? the artist makes feminist art so it’s probably showing that men go crazy about the position instead of seeing what’s actually going on in the art
I'd like to disagree with you. The way this art is made look more like it's trying to feed the fantasy of some men rather than criticising it. The way the woman are dressed and the fact that they are shown to climb on the contraption imply consent on their part wich make it look more like sex rather than denouncing the objecyification of woman in the work place.
The woman partaking in the exibit are in uncomfortable positionbbut don't show signs of incomfort. I don't know how to explain it.
Art should make you uncomfortable to make you reflect on something. Here it's the objectification of woman in the workplace. The people that are getting uncomfortable are the one already against it. The people that really need to reflect on this are getting aroussed so for me the message of the art is lost.
It looks like it objectify woman while trying to speak out against objectifying women.
Our lives are a study in humiliation. Thus, art imitates life.
The world is coming to an end 😢😢😢😢
No, the word will continue to exist.
The world is getting better every day lol
Looks like a Professional (Eating) Station! 🥵😛🥵😛🥵😛🥵😛
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after watching the whole vid, and read the caption, i came to think ...... the artist spent a lot money to built these arts, that same amount of money would buy a lot of pencil colors and paper for kids in refugee camps. I don't know.....
You spent a lot of money on the device to make this comment that could have been used to give colored pencils to starving children in Africa.
@@randommofo123 hahaha! No, I'm in third world country, my phone cost more or less USD 230. Anyway, that would buy quite some color pencil tho. But I"d rather buy phone to find commission works. You know, that would save myself from starving like African kids. Oh by the way, not all African kids are poor, some country in Africa actually in a good shape.
@@soehokgie Masterful deflection
Beautiful woman I love ❤️ she ❤️❤️❤️❤️♨️♨️♨️♨️♨️♨️
I think the real art here is that we are invited to assume what is next in the process. It looks like the claws could close around the woman, locking her in and then there is a ladder and handles for someone else to get on the back. It looks some a combination of airplane hardware and slaughterhouse equipment 🤷🏼♂️
I like the way you think
Mueble ancestral para activar la circulación sanguínea y vías respiratorias descomprime columna vertebral
I feel like I'm gonna build one for my girl😊
a psychiatrist would be recommended
Just jews Being jews
What is this thing I can't understand
This sculpture looks like a device for impregnating women.
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What kind of Taimanin asagi bad end punishment is this?!
What is the meaning of this?🤷🤷🤷🤷
It's basically a "artsy" strip club
Maybe that's not the right question for this work. It's like a slip in reality, where formal eroticism and bizarreness of air steward's and their demonstrations and plane interiors are teased out into another variation. You can imagine falling asleep on a plane and starting to dream this is happening and not think its odd at all. It wouldn't surprise me if the artist dreamt this on a plane. I suppose the contraptions are for eating the stewardesses' pussies since the title is Continental Breakfast.
Doing anything in name of art
Parece un fetiche del creador, nadie piensa en los discapacitados.
😂😂😂😂
Where? I need it
Why ?
Were Not Gonna Make It...
Genius
Horrendous AI voice 🤦🏻♀️
@@tigalilli3358 esto no es IA. es un lector y ya está
MUJERES ...INEVITABLE TENTACIÓN QUE NI LOS ÁNGELES PUDIERON CONTROLAR !!!
narration gave me a brain haemorrhage
so.... edgy bs
Imean yes I think I've seen it on xvideos maybe a few times.
This is some House of Gord shit right here.
I mean...
СЕГС!!!
To the uploader,seek help
and.....wtf is this....?
Way to go feminism!
Letting women endure this embarrassing moments!
Crap
wtf\
What non sense is this
Could spice up my se# x life for sure not sure the mrs would like it tho or get on it 😮 shame 😊
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Its not a BDSM device? XD