Riddles of the Sphinx. Victor Burgin in Boston.

Burnett gives an acount of past work of Burgin and discusses
Burgin's recent activities in Boston. Some statements: The first
work of Burgin questioned the immediate contexts of perception
and representation. In the seventies Burgin investigated
advertising. A critical understanding of public media could
reach beyond the art world. Photography, strategically placed in
the mass-media, became increasingly important. Next, Burgin's
image-text work tries to characterize how image, psyche and
ideology relate across the social body of patriarchy. A critical
and historical examination of relations between language and
image throws light on the modernist claim that ""text gives way
to picture''. To confront this myth of magical images, Burgin
uses the concept of hieroglyph. In Boston a series of lectures
was presented: ""Heads in hieroglyphic bonnets''. Together with
other activities in Boston, it should uncover the
""hieroglyphs'' of social history, psychic life and sexual
difference within patriarchy. Lectures by Peter Der Manuelian,
Francette Pacteau, and Burgin are reported. A discussion of
recent work by Burgin, exhibited at Boston, completes the
article.


Citaten:
Burgin, V.
Pacteau, Francette
Manuelian, Peter de