Auto Emotion: Autobiography, Emotion and Self-Fashioning
Switch, Summer 2008, no. 1.2, pp. 4-6
An exhibition review of "Auto Emotion: Autobiography, emotion and self-fashioning" from The Power Plant, Toronto from summer 2007. The group of fourteen artist fashion performative video works on the "generative capacity of emotion, lending it fresh relevance in aesthetic production". Hyland notes a trend within these works to personal narrative within the out sourcing of instrumentalization by using other people as performers within the work.
ITEM 2008.134 – available for viewing in the Research Centre
Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited
Desperately Seeking Artwork – Christian Jankowski
The Mourner – Adrian Paci
Official Welcome – Andrea Fraser
The Onion – Marina Abramovic
Untitled – Matt Mullican
Lyric – Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay
The Present – Eija-Liisa Ahtila
Exquisite Pain – Sophie Calle