http://art.newcity.com/2009/12/14/review-matthew-paul-jinksgallery-400/ Reviews, profiles and news about art in Chicago Sat, 07 Jan 2012 18:08:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://art.newcity.com/2009/12/14/review-matthew-paul-jinksgallery-400/comment-page-1/#comment-256 ankeny13 Wed, 16 Dec 2009 19:50:19 +0000 http://art.newcity.com/?p=4467#comment-256 I think the reviewer totally misses the point on this one. The ideals expressed by the reviewer for Jinks project constitute a complete failure of art in general if you ask this audience member. Goals like enunciation or illustration in addition to phrases like "broadening a viwer's understanding" are better suited for theory and writers like Said or Bhabba do this beautifully with post-colonial theory of course. To ask this piece to reduce itself to clear didactics is a huge mistake. I think the artist is well ahead of the reviewer. He seems interested in presenting the problem with nuance (Indians and Pakistanis carrying the flag for the sport of cricket in Chicago for example) and complications reflective of this place and time - not as a clearly digested treatse, but as a complex experience (the overlapping of real/ live performance with the video on opening night was a functional example of this kind of complication in the way representation and documentation try and fail at accounting for reality with a tip of the hat to Lacan for a nice parallel to the theoretical complexity at issue. I thought this was one of the best recent shows in Chicago. I think the reviewer totally misses the point on this one. The ideals expressed by the reviewer for Jinks project constitute a complete failure of art in general if you ask this audience member. Goals like enunciation or illustration in addition to phrases like “broadening a viwer’s understanding” are better suited for theory and writers like Said or Bhabba do this beautifully with post-colonial theory of course. To ask this piece to reduce itself to clear didactics is a huge mistake. I think the artist is well ahead of the reviewer. He seems interested in presenting the problem with nuance (Indians and Pakistanis carrying the flag for the sport of cricket in Chicago for example) and complications reflective of this place and time – not as a clearly digested treatse, but as a complex experience (the overlapping of real/ live performance with the video on opening night was a functional example of this kind of complication in the way representation and documentation try and fail at accounting for reality with a tip of the hat to Lacan for a nice parallel to the theoretical complexity at issue. I thought this was one of the best recent shows in Chicago.

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