Installation view from Nest, a show by Dan Colen and Dash Snow at Deitch Projects on view from July 26–August 16, 2007. More on the show here.
A few dystalgic headlines:
1. Let's Get Political
2. Zingers Saved Up, Sprayed Up
3. Heads Hung Low
4. Pete And Repeat Went For a Walk, Pete Made a Show, Nothing Was Left
5. Where's The Outrage?
6. Andrew Dice Clay Spotted in SoHo
7. Jeffrey Handles the Vandals
8. Live At Budokan
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Saturday, August 11, 2007
One Reporter's Opinion
Posted by dystalgia at 10:28 PM
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Super good call, Nicely. Nest is SO dystalgic for reasons we haven't even touched on yet, which I think will help to define this term. Nest claims to aestheticize and make public a private activity originally conceived to serve a purpose. The purpose was to get completely fucked up on whatever in a controlled environment. Further, the participants were exempt from a certain level of the consequential damage as the environment for the activity is a hotel room, from which said participants can simply walk away (one hopes), paying the handsome tab and disappearing back into public life. Nest as an exhibition is dystalgic by both opening such an event to a larger set of observers because it also controls the number of these observers. It is also contrived in a way that approximates a "real" nest in a displaced setting. But the kicker is the timeframe within which this occurs, I think. This project exemplifies the shortened feedback loop of memory and history. This work is dystalgic because it hearkens back into very recent history (Benjamin would say the "just past").
cory- so you're saying that dystalgia is generally defined by referencing something in "recent history"?
I keep returning to dystaligia as being a tactic employed to form critical opinions. Analysis of "Nest" draws out references to recent history, but maybe it's dystalgic to say that an artist's reference game is poorly played.
We're offended because we believe in the historical and political presursors to "Nest". Really it's only our nostalgia for these things that's left bruised.
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