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Grifting: David Lamelas

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This man, David Lamelas, is a genius. A photo here is a very horrible form of telling the story. Nevertheless, this 16mm film loop and corresponding 120 black and white photographs entitled Cumulative Script , 1971 is incredible.

A true grift, I saw it a couple of days ago at the Generali Foundation in Vienna. It kind of says fuck-you to narrative through an "almost-inherently" story-based medium. "There are no key moments that provide clues to the action, that is, these moments are variable and dictated by the viewers' perceptions." Thus, one minute the two individuals in the piece are seemingly speaking amicably, the next they are fist-fighting. I'm not sure why. Maybe it was based on a personal argument?

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