I scanned this image from Artnews because I couldn't find...



I scanned this image from Artnews because I couldn't find a good enough one online. I've stared at this image for over an hour, and can't get over the brute force of the idea. It's a lot larger than just this image, too. From Oleg Kulik's Wiki:



For his performances, Kulik creates a symbolic set of parameters to define the environment which he will inhabit in the persona of a dog, and then devises a series of actions that unfold as a response. The artist describes the dialogue within his practice as "a conscious falling out of the human horizon" which places him on hands and knees. His intention is to describe what he sees as a crisis of contemporary culture, a result of an overly refined cultural language which creates barriers between individuals. Thus, he simplifies his performance language to the basic emotional vocabulary of a domestic animal.



Naked, dirty, chained, and aggressive, Oleg's art is immersive, shocking, and in some cases very violent.

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Published on June 08, 2011 09:40
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