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PERSUASION_Idea, attitude, or action (2009) [updated 06 February 2011] For more information scroll down |
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SITUATION // PERSUASION_Idea, attitude, or action // APRIL - JUNE 2009 // BuroDijkstr ArtGallery // Rotterdam // Netherlands Weapons of influence: 1. The reliance on intense interpersonal and psychological attack to destabilize an individual's sense of self to promote compliance. 2. The use of an organized peer group. 3. Applying interpersonal pressure to promote conformity. 4. The manipulation of the totality of the person's social environment to stabilize behavior once modified. N Situation: Persuasion (Idea, attitude, or action) by Edwin Stolk, shown at BuroDijkstra ArtGallery, Rotterdam, Netherlands 2009. Persuasion is a form of social influence. The installation persuasion is built out of several social issues, as a radical phenomenologist, subjective terrorist I put these issues together and connect them in the installation whiteout an absolute statement. You can see me as an engaged artist, that's why I always connect actuality into the works I create. I use subjects from daily life experience or in other ways projected on me like through internet, newspapers or television. As an example you can recognize aspects from my journey in December 2009 to Bulgaria, the credit crises and the elections in the USA. By combining these subjects there arises a new reality, a subjective reality. The work investigates the dominant role science plays in our thinking and our culture. What does the accepted and reduced perception mean compared with our vision of reality? How do we come to acceptance of reality and who is in control of our accepted reality? The situations I organize are philosophical interventions and can be seen as a new generation material actionism. Text by Edwin Stolk |
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