Tuesday, December 16, 2014

Clusterfuck Aesthetic

Luiza Benisano
Art 343
Clusterfuck Aesthetic
Cluster Aesthetic was about the new cacophony and the chaos theory. The series of art installations are more dominated by men than women since in the reading, it said that women don’t get off to making mess in making art work compared to men. The likes of these artists are Mike Kelley, Paul McCarthy and Jason Rhoades. Jerry Saltz, who wrote the Clusterfuck Aesthetic, says that Mike Kelley’s work was a pioneering example of the Clusterfuck Aesthetic which meant the tendency towards overloaded multimedia environments in contemporary art. I saw Mike Kelley’s “Day is done” video and thought it was really weird and a perfect example of the Clusterfuck Aesthetic. His work was about pop culture and exhibited random things that did not seem to make sense when added together, but all exhibited pop culture. Examples of his images were angels, a woman dressed in the band KISS make up, Kate Winslet, and “slave day”. I thought his work really interesting and I personally would be interested in dabbling in works that could be considered the “new cacophony.” Most of my art works always seemed to have a message or meaning and that is why I would like to experiment in doing art work that consists of putting something together for the sake of putting something together. A Clusterfuck Aesthetic kind of work. 

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