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1001 Nights
Commentary
1001 NIGHTS
This installation immerses the audience in questions, ambiguities, and mysteries while (like the Molotov cocktail) exploding dualities, certainties, and the expected. Drawing upon, (re)using, (re)creating, re(cycling), and (under)mining, various artistic movements, genres, and processes, including pop art and found art, the installation generates a potential for exuberance and jouissance, while, at moments, interrogating the deadly serious.
The installation spits out the dizzying and provocative question of the commodity fetish, consumption, and its relationship to art and late-stage capitalism.
We find ourselves querying where did these bottles come from, who were their owners, what was in them, and how have they been transformed from refuse to art? How do these bottles speak to one another and what does it mean to create an intentional community of the inanimate? Is there a message in the bottle that saves us from ourselves or are they form without function -- an afternoon’s titillating delight, a conversation over a glass of wine?
May 2022
Felice Batlan, JD, PhD
Professor of Law
Chicago-Kent College of Law
This installation immerses the audience in questions, ambiguities, and mysteries while (like the Molotov cocktail) exploding dualities, certainties, and the expected. Drawing upon, (re)using, (re)creating, re(cycling), and (under)mining, various artistic movements, genres, and processes, including pop art and found art, the installation generates a potential for exuberance and jouissance, while, at moments, interrogating the deadly serious.
The installation spits out the dizzying and provocative question of the commodity fetish, consumption, and its relationship to art and late-stage capitalism.
We find ourselves querying where did these bottles come from, who were their owners, what was in them, and how have they been transformed from refuse to art? How do these bottles speak to one another and what does it mean to create an intentional community of the inanimate? Is there a message in the bottle that saves us from ourselves or are they form without function -- an afternoon’s titillating delight, a conversation over a glass of wine?
May 2022
Felice Batlan, JD, PhD
Professor of Law
Chicago-Kent College of Law
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