Four Directions of an Arist: Charles Hossein Zenderoudi & Eating the Wall Street Journal: Pope L
Four Directions of an Arist: Charles Hossein Zenderoudi
At first I thought this was some crazy abstract piece that I could never wrap my head around. I thought that it was a beautiful pattern that I would wear on a dress, some kind of contorted floral print. After explanations, you realize the power in this piece. They are words without meaning. The artist took Arabic symbols and contorted them into nothing. It really shows how we are the ones who give words power. The actual sketches on the page are meaningless.
Eating the Wall Street Journal: Pope L
At first, I thought this was just some construction going on in the museum. I didn’t understand why newspapers were all piled up to lead to a toilet thrown, but when you watch the video of his performance, you can’t help but want to throw up. People stood as he ate the Wall Street Journal and proceeded to throw it up. It inverts the social ladder, bringing the elite newspapers down to the bottom, and these mundane things like ketchup and milk and human excrement up to the top. It also turns this representation of elitism into something as mundane as a bodily excretion. We give the elite the power and we can easily take it away.
