Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Chamberlain, Colby

Titel

CULTURES

Ist Teil von

• Artforum international, 2023-04, Vol.61 (8)

Ort / Verlag

New York: Artforum Inc

Erscheinungsjahr

2023

Quelle

International Bibliography of Art (IBA)

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• AMERICA LOVES its unconscionable mash-ups. Since the 1990s, a fixture of Thanksgiving Day football coverage has been television anchors’ ritual consumption of a “turducken”: a chicken stuffed in a duck stuffed in a turkey. Kline has vocally opposed the post-internet label, suggesting, only half-jokingly, that “post-9/11” or “post–Lehman Brothers” would be more accurate, but involuntary categorization is the price an artist pays for relevance.1 Zeitgeist-chasing curators have pinned Kline to virtually every buzzword-laden theory that gained traction over the past decade—not just post-internet art, but also “speculative realism” and the microwaved leftovers of Italian autonomia. By the late eighteenth century, this term of process could also indicate a finished product, at which point culture became a cudgel in struggles for power. Kline’s installation Civil War, 2016–17, at Stuart Shave/Modern Art in London, shrank the fractured American landscape down into a carpeted living room furnished with bifurcated commodities.