Dan Fine
Video installastions
"Visuality and the Booth"
By B i l l A r n i n g

Inspired by the strange architectural inventions of New York’s sexual undergrounds, Fine looks not at the sociosexual behaviors of these spaces, as have most artists who have dealt with this material.
Rather, the artist has treated the spaces as unintentional yet rich experiments in scopophilic pleasure, akin to museums. Fine takes all the complications of sight that occur when we look at pictures of other beings – our eyes move swiftly between face and body, and they will appear either to return our stare or be unaware – and he has cubed this complexity. His projections appear to be conspicuously aware of our stares, respond to them, and provoke them. When there is more then one human in the room and more then one projected actor, I calculate the different voyeur-to-viewed combinations at 64. This would be true if his figures were merely sitting fully clothed, hands folded in their laps. But Fine wants this to be more anxiety producing than such an academic
exercise would have been....
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