Keywords:
Narrative of everyday objects
Common experience
Constantly changing object contexts to build narratives
Interaction between objects and bodies
Staging
Dematerialization
His performances were usually short in duration — a matter of seconds or minutes — and involved a dead-pan manipulation of simple everyday objects, often over a folding table. "Spectacles," as he called them. The effect was a dislocation of these objects from their familiar, practical origins, and the animation of new relationships with them.
His performance gives people a sense of the relationship with objects never seen or never experienced before.
“In one way or another, we all attempt to order our experience, the principle by which we order experience are not unique to any one of us."-Stuart Sherman[1]
Performative situations staging the interaction between objects and bodies.
Related artist
Wenming Tong
Alan and Michael Fleming
Roman Signer
Resources
[1] Robin Deacon, 2015. Spectacle: A Portrait of Stuart Sherman. [Online]
Available at: https://vimeo.com/70058334
