JordanWolfson's 'Female Figure' sculpture is back on view at the Brant Foundation Art Study Center. In honor of his return to Manhattan, he talks to AnneImhof about provocation and interactive art.
in 2014 at David Zwirner Gallery in Chelsea, it caused such a stir of curious anxiety that lines formed to get a glimpse of it. Wolfson’s life-sized animatronic work gyrated in front of a mirror to pop songs wearing a long blond wig and a sexy white bunny outfit.
IMHOF: That’s true. But they’re many, so they become a group. It’s less empty than what I mean when I say the new work that you’re occupied with has no face. It is reduced to something that has to create emotions. It’s still very emotional seeing it. Even though you showed me on your phone and it was a video, it still created a very immediate reaction from me that had to do with emotions. I wanted to talk about that, because it was about composition and creating emotion without having a face.
IMHOF: A lot of shows. I read somewhere that you’ve shown with Andy Warhol and Isa Genzken and I was kind of like, “What? Okay.” And then I thought, “Okay, both of them are quite lonely, right?” Andy Warhol had quite a lot of figures around him. There’s a strong magnetism that he had. He worked with Isa. A lot of artists count her as an idol.IMHOF: Yeah. And I thought about people like Elizabeth Peyton, for example.
WOLFSON: I’m a very conservative artist and this idea of interactivity and how interactivity negates the experience of the art, it’s really just Marshall McLuhan stuff, where he talks about different types of media. The telephone is a hot medium, because there’s an exchange between two voices, but the radio is a cold medium, because there’s just one voice speaking and you can never speak back to the radio. I want my interactivity to be cold.
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