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Of course, it is possible to enjoy Sehgal's interventions as small gallery-based performances (again the artist would object to my use of the word), but they depend on our familiarity with a complex set of art-historical references: task-based performance and the convergence of dance and Conceptualism in the '60s and '70s, the exhaustion of institutional critique (Michael Asher in particular springs to mind), and an overfamiliarity with the conventions of exhibition display. The very universality of ``Broken Wings'' sometimes pushes it to the soap-opera edge of overfamiliarity. As it happens, Cullen's response to a trip to Auschwitz in the early '90s, where he was struck by the inadequacy of Holocaust imagery made increasingly ineffectual by overfamiliarity, prompted a key early work, Auschwitz 1940-1945--a guide book through the Museum, 1993, which involved the transcription of a text describing a typical day in the camp. |
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