"For us, the idea of having a work that has contradictions is very important—when, in affirming something, it includes itself and attacks itself. How can you put together all of these things that have nothing to do with each other? You use glue! Glue can be an idea, a word. You can use an ideological glue."
"Costume Bureau" (2006)
"Costume Bureau," 2006
Mixed media, 74 x 108 x 39 inches
Photo by Chris Burke Studio
Courtesy Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York
Mixed media, 74 x 108 x 39 inches
Photo by Chris Burke Studio
Courtesy Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York
"My work has a pretty complicated relationship to performance. Part of that is because there’s no traditional audience-performer relationship. But there is a Bouvard-and-Pécuchet element in my work: in a way, I’m working through the natural sciences as a dilettante. At the same time, I’m doing that in a very playful way to probe and question the trappings of authority. I’m examining the trappings of authority while, at the same time, I have some relationship at least to the history of the discipline itself."
- Mark Dion
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