BAUDRILLARD: A SEMIOTIC EXPERIMENT

This art installation is an experiment of encountering pure obscenity (and thereby an examination of the limits of art)

AN ICON

AN ART WORK AND IT’S ANALYSE

A MANUAL

Obscénity has replaced our reality and dissolved our critical thinking. Society, especially social media, performs / changes the truth as false and the false as truth. But it also fascinates us.It tricks us. There is a reason why we watch X-Factor, the news, aim for health and use social media. In these cases the obscénity is presented in colors, sounds, and videos. But what would we do if we got to experience pure obscénity? How does it feel? What is it? 

In “ Les Strategies Fatale” Baudrillard defines obscénity as "the thing that is more true then true” and art as the thing that is more “false then false”. In addition, he concludes that something more true then true creates something false and something more false then false creates a truth. 

The aim of this artwork is to use the conditions of art as the frame to fully exhibit obscenity by finding an equilibrium where the art dissolves and the only thing left to experience is pure obesity without any container. 

The artwork is composed of four rooms made up of three different sub-artworks. Each part manifests obscéninte by multiplying truth. In the first part, an iconic sign melts together with the arts meaningless ‘out-of-scale’ feature.The second part consists of artworks inspired by the iconic signs followed by art analysis of each piece. The last and third part is made up by manuals that shows step-by-step how the artworks from part 2 were created.

Translation

1) Digital sketches of the first room, ‘Form’

2) Example of art piece from ‘Form’ called ‘Isvaffel 0’ (ice cone) with dimension 107 x 178 cm

3) Digital sketch of the third room ‘Obskønitet’ (obscénitny)

4) Floor Plan for the structure of the artwork

5) Elements and organization of the artwork. The artwork is organised as a maze consisting of four rooms. First room contains six art pieces treating the subject ‘form’. The third room has six art installations. Each installation is composed of an art piece from the series ‘Obskøn’( obscénitny) and its written art analysis. The fourth consists of six manuals. 

6) Examples of the art installation 'Donut 2’, here the artwork 'Donut 1’

7) Examples of the art installation 'Donut 2’, here the art analysis of ‘Donut 1’

8) Example of an manual, here manual ‘Cupcake’