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Article: Let Me Feel Your Finger First
Posted: March 3, 2013
Each bemused visitor entering the gallery foyer at London’s Institute of Contemporary Arts was asked to put on a plastic mask of a bespectacled, bearded, pock-marked man and join a throng of identically transformed people inside. Losing their visibility and individuality, subsumed into an anonymous hive-mind, all of them were soon following absurd instructions from an animated version of that same unsettling man, a floating head projected on a screen. Spoken in German, subtitled in English, the orders include, “Fall on the floor and play dead”. How far will you go to obey? Will you rebel? The queasy atmosphere of this communal programming was compounded by interruptions of an unseen comic strip, narrated panel by panel in a mock-academic Germanic accent, about our Big Brother-style master’s peccadillos. We gradually learn that he likes nothing better on a hot summer afternoon than tying up his nephews, Cute Punk and his twin, lanky acidhead Clem. Meet the rest of this dysfunctional, discomforting ‘Familenalbum’ here…
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