"I still think the social function of art is that kind of negative aesthetic. Otherwise there’s no social function for it."
SEGMENT: Janine Antoni in "Loss & Desire"
From "Art in the Twenty-First Century" Season 2 (2003)
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Filmed weaving a rope out of materials donated by friends and relatives, Janine Antoni comments that the rope is like a "lifeline." The artist is later shown walking a tightrope, preparing for the video "Touch" where she appears to walk on the blue ocean horizon of her childhood home in the Bahamas. Antoni's use of unusual sculptural materials such as chocolate, soap, lard, and rawhide is explored as the artist takes the viewer on a tour of a major exhibition at SITE Santa Fe. "There are so many objects that...we’ve lost a connection to what they’re made of, who made them," explains Antoni.
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