When realising the importance of the curation of my piece and how this affects the audience, it is relatable to research of Edward Keinholz video On Exhibit, 1966. Within the video Kienholz references how we as an artists and curator can provoke a viewer to feel a specific way, and example of this is the piece Back Seat Dodge ’38, 1964. The piece itself captures to teenagers making love in the back end of a car, the placement of beer bottles and other objects allows the viewer to speculate the goings on. Within the video we can view the audience reaction to this piece, as at the time this was very shocking and the piece had ended up being censored to 18+. At this stage the exhibition was deemed pornographic however this is subtle compared to content in contemporary society. The installation of Vibrate takes this ideal into consideration, the video piece references sexual apparatus in a subtle way, through the ritual of make-up. This is not in any way an attempt to shock the viewer but it suggests a consideration of the acceptance of these apparatus.
Steel, J. 1970. Keinholz On Exhibit. Available at: https://archive.org/details/kienholz_on_exhibit [Accessed: 10 May 2014].
Artist As Curator 