This exhibition is one of an ongoing series of short video performances by Melbourne-based collaborators Norie Neumark and Maria Miranda (Out-of-Sync).
For over 20 years, the duo have engaged with questions of culture, place and memory in an attempt to explore and understand the concept of provocation found in literary texts and popular cultural forms such as film, TV and music.
Borrowing from literary author Sianne Ngai’s concept of ‘stuplimity’ – the playing around between the sublime and the stupid – Out-of-Sync explore the aesthetics of neo-liberalism through slapstick comedy, primarily from the well-known American vaudeville act, the Three Stooges.
BLINDSIDE Artist-Run Space
Until 16 July, 2016
Melbourne
Shredded, 2015, still from video
Courtesy the artists and BLINDSIDE Artist-Run Space, Melbourne
