'I JUST WANNA BE AS PRETTY AS I FEEL'
MARIO ZOOTS
AUGUST 30 - SEPTEMBER 26 2012
PRETEEN GALLERY IS PLEASED TO PRESENT ‘I JUST WANNA BE AS PRETTY AS I FEEL’, A NEW SOLO EXHIBITION BY DENVER-BASED ARTIST MARIO ZOOTS.
MARIO ZOOTS’ WORK SCRUTINIZES THE ENDLESS AND COMPLEX SYSTEMS OF CYBER-CULTURE; ITS DE-COHERENT SETS OF INFORMATIONAL MEMES AND UNPREDICTABLE FLOWS OF DATA. HOLDING A STERILE AND SHARP SCALPEL, HE PROCEEDS TO DISMEMBER AND DISSECT THE OMNIPRESENT PHANTASMIC FIGURE OF HORROR WHILE SUGGESTING A DIVERGENT SCHIZO-SYNTHESIS OF POST-HUMAN SUBJECTIVITY.
ACCORDING TO DANIEL LAGACHE’S NOTION OF AUDITORY HALLUCINATIONS AS THE RESULT OF AN ALIENATION OF SPEECH, THE SUBJECT IS HAUNTED BY VOICES THAT CAN ONLY BE HIS OWN, THESE VOICES UTTER HIS OWN WORDS IN SO FAR AS THIS SPEECH IS STRUCTURED IN THE OTHER’S DESIRE, -A DESIRE THAT VIOLENTLY DISLOCATES THE SUBJECT’S UNCONSCIOUS- AND ULTIMATELY, GIVES SHAPE TO HIS ABHORRENT SELF-IMAGE, HIS PUTRID BODY, HIS EQUIVOCAL EXISTENCE; FOR THE ONLY TRUE ACCOUNT OF BEING IS THE ONE GIVEN BY THE SPEAKING SUBJECT AND THE SUBSEQUENT RECOGNITION OF THIS OTHER’S BEING AS ACTUAL BELONGS TO THE REALM OF FAITH; FAITH FUNCTIONING AS A SORT OF SYNTACTIC APPARATUS IN THE UNCONSCIOUS, A FICTIONAL STRAIGHT-JACKET THAT SUPPRESSES THE INDIVIDUAL’S LATENT PARANOID DELUSIONS, HIS IRRECONCILABLE CONFLICT WITH BEING, HIS MADNESS.
EXTRAPOLATING FROM THIS PARTICULAR VIEW OF THE ALIENATION OF SPEECH TO THE PHENOMENA OF VISUAL HALLUCINATIONS AS AN ALIENATION OF SIGHT, THE SUBJECT’S VISUAL INTROJECTIONS OF IMMATERIAL ENTITIES SUPPOSE AN EXCISION OF THE SELF FROM THE REAL, A COLLAPSE INTO THE HORRORS OF THE BRUTAL FATE OF CONSCIOUSNESS: THE PLAGUE OF MEMORIES. THIS OPTICAL DIMENSION OF THE TRAUMATIZING EXPERIENCE OF THE REAL, THIS DISJUNCTION OF THE SELF WHICH ACCOUNTS FOR THE SUBJECT’S EXPERIENCE OF THE INESCAPABLE TRANSPOSITION TO NOTHINGNESS IS WHAT LIES AT THE CORE OF MARIO ZOOTS' VIRULENT AESTHETICS.
‘I JUST WANNA BE AS PRETTY AS I FEEL’ COMPRISES FOUR NEW WORKS ON PAPER. IN THESE COLLAGES, ZOOTS MAPS AND RECONFIGURES THE DETRITUS OF TIMEWORN CULTURAL IMAGERY. HE REVERSES TRADITIONAL ARCHAEOLOGICAL METHODS OF INVESTIGATION. THE RESULTING RECONSTRUCTION DOES NOT PAY RESEMBLANCE TO THE STUDIED OBJECTS’ PAST COUNTENANCE, THUS, ZOOTS PROBLEMATIZES THE ASSUMED HISTORICITY OF THE SCIENTIFIC PRACTICE OF RESTORATION AS A RECONSTRUCTION OF A HYPOTHETICAL PAST.
MARIO ZOOTS LIVES AND WORKS IN DENVER. HE IS CO-FOUNDER OF THE EXPERIMENTAL PUBLISHING PROJECT DRIPPY BONE BOOKS. HE ALSO CREATES THE IDENTITY AND VIDEO ART FOR THE PERFORMANCE COLLECTIVE MODERN WITCH. MARIO ZOOTS HAS EXHIBITED HIS WORK IN DENVER, LOS ANGELES, MEXICO CITY, NEW YORK, SAO PAULO, AMSTERDAM AND BERLIN.
http://preteengallery.net/
MARIO ZOOTS’ WORK SCRUTINIZES THE ENDLESS AND COMPLEX SYSTEMS OF CYBER-CULTURE; ITS DE-COHERENT SETS OF INFORMATIONAL MEMES AND UNPREDICTABLE FLOWS OF DATA. HOLDING A STERILE AND SHARP SCALPEL, HE PROCEEDS TO DISMEMBER AND DISSECT THE OMNIPRESENT PHANTASMIC FIGURE OF HORROR WHILE SUGGESTING A DIVERGENT SCHIZO-SYNTHESIS OF POST-HUMAN SUBJECTIVITY.
ACCORDING TO DANIEL LAGACHE’S NOTION OF AUDITORY HALLUCINATIONS AS THE RESULT OF AN ALIENATION OF SPEECH, THE SUBJECT IS HAUNTED BY VOICES THAT CAN ONLY BE HIS OWN, THESE VOICES UTTER HIS OWN WORDS IN SO FAR AS THIS SPEECH IS STRUCTURED IN THE OTHER’S DESIRE, -A DESIRE THAT VIOLENTLY DISLOCATES THE SUBJECT’S UNCONSCIOUS- AND ULTIMATELY, GIVES SHAPE TO HIS ABHORRENT SELF-IMAGE, HIS PUTRID BODY, HIS EQUIVOCAL EXISTENCE; FOR THE ONLY TRUE ACCOUNT OF BEING IS THE ONE GIVEN BY THE SPEAKING SUBJECT AND THE SUBSEQUENT RECOGNITION OF THIS OTHER’S BEING AS ACTUAL BELONGS TO THE REALM OF FAITH; FAITH FUNCTIONING AS A SORT OF SYNTACTIC APPARATUS IN THE UNCONSCIOUS, A FICTIONAL STRAIGHT-JACKET THAT SUPPRESSES THE INDIVIDUAL’S LATENT PARANOID DELUSIONS, HIS IRRECONCILABLE CONFLICT WITH BEING, HIS MADNESS.
EXTRAPOLATING FROM THIS PARTICULAR VIEW OF THE ALIENATION OF SPEECH TO THE PHENOMENA OF VISUAL HALLUCINATIONS AS AN ALIENATION OF SIGHT, THE SUBJECT’S VISUAL INTROJECTIONS OF IMMATERIAL ENTITIES SUPPOSE AN EXCISION OF THE SELF FROM THE REAL, A COLLAPSE INTO THE HORRORS OF THE BRUTAL FATE OF CONSCIOUSNESS: THE PLAGUE OF MEMORIES. THIS OPTICAL DIMENSION OF THE TRAUMATIZING EXPERIENCE OF THE REAL, THIS DISJUNCTION OF THE SELF WHICH ACCOUNTS FOR THE SUBJECT’S EXPERIENCE OF THE INESCAPABLE TRANSPOSITION TO NOTHINGNESS IS WHAT LIES AT THE CORE OF MARIO ZOOTS' VIRULENT AESTHETICS.
‘I JUST WANNA BE AS PRETTY AS I FEEL’ COMPRISES FOUR NEW WORKS ON PAPER. IN THESE COLLAGES, ZOOTS MAPS AND RECONFIGURES THE DETRITUS OF TIMEWORN CULTURAL IMAGERY. HE REVERSES TRADITIONAL ARCHAEOLOGICAL METHODS OF INVESTIGATION. THE RESULTING RECONSTRUCTION DOES NOT PAY RESEMBLANCE TO THE STUDIED OBJECTS’ PAST COUNTENANCE, THUS, ZOOTS PROBLEMATIZES THE ASSUMED HISTORICITY OF THE SCIENTIFIC PRACTICE OF RESTORATION AS A RECONSTRUCTION OF A HYPOTHETICAL PAST.
MARIO ZOOTS LIVES AND WORKS IN DENVER. HE IS CO-FOUNDER OF THE EXPERIMENTAL PUBLISHING PROJECT DRIPPY BONE BOOKS. HE ALSO CREATES THE IDENTITY AND VIDEO ART FOR THE PERFORMANCE COLLECTIVE MODERN WITCH. MARIO ZOOTS HAS EXHIBITED HIS WORK IN DENVER, LOS ANGELES, MEXICO CITY, NEW YORK, SAO PAULO, AMSTERDAM AND BERLIN.
http://preteengallery.net/
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