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A good example of Baldessaris deadpan irreverence is this black-and-white
videotape, in which he moves different parts of his body slightly
while saying, after each move, I Am Making Art. The statement,
he says, hovers between assertion and belief. On one level,
the piece spoofs the work of artists who, in the late 1960s and
early 1970s, explored the use of their own bodies and gestures
as an art medium. The endless repetition, awkwardness of the movements
made by the artist, and the reiteration of the statement I Am
Making Art create a synthesis of gestural and
linguistic modes which is both innovative (in the same way that
the more serious work of his peers is innovative) and absurdly
self-evident. |
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