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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