Anodyne
Tuesday, April 11, 2006
 

Peter Culley directs me to Alicia Cohen's splendid long essay on Jack Spicer and haunting.

"By seeking to undermine the stable world constructed during the mirror stage, Spicer makes a passageway for the inhabitants of the lost Los Angeles to, like Eurydice, come up into the civic landscape.

America is a democracy where even the common man or woman supposedly has a voteā€”but what of the voiceless? The 'insane'? The dead? In his work, Jack Spicer troubles the democratic vista by creating virtual spaces where these disembodied Others, these non-coherent, non-unified beings, emerge to trouble and participate in the 'real.'"




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