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Jordan Wolfson

Jordan Wolfson

(Jordan Wolfson), Jordan Wolfson
English version / Czech subtitles, 60 min

Con Leche, 2009
Hand drawn animation of Diet Coke bottles filled with milk composited into video footage walk alone and in groups through an empty industrial city from day to night. A commercial voice over actress speaks from texts Wolfson collected from the Internet most of which are personal accounts spoken in first person. The subjects of these text changes constantly change and vary from questions about the body to definitions of technology to conversations about identity. Every few minutes Jordan Wolfson interrupts her giving basic instructions and adjustments: Please increase volume/ please decrease volume/ Please increase sex/Please decrease sex/Please normalize tone. These instructions are exactly similar to those found in the re-enactments of 'Your Napoleon', 2009.

Animation, masks, 2011
Shylock, the central character of the video, is a 3D animation who reads out loud the Love poem written by Richard Brautigan each time with a different borrowed voice. These sequences are countered by Shylock speaking a sexually loaded dialogue of Wolfson and a woman where he asks her to describe for the viewer what it is like to be with him. The backgrounds depict organized bohemian, bourgeois living against disorganized mundane, middle and working class interiors. With Animation, masks Wolfson approaches the dichotomy of good and evil as well as sex and love. The work relates to his past work in that Wolfson twists symbols and icons from popular culture with his own personal re-reflection of the material aiming at a critical perspective on social politics.