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Interesting Piece - via hyperallergic
Frances Stark, “The Inchoate Incarnate: After a Drawing, Toward an Opera, but before a Libretto Even Exists” (2009)
As seen at the Frieze Art Fair this year, and previously at Aspen’s Wheeler Opera House earlier this year as a part of her “I’ve Had It! I’ve Also Had It!” piece, as well as the Aspen Art Museum. The piece, which also features a performance piece including musicians and back-up dancers, is a part of her reworking of the musical “I’ve Had It!” which is comedic tear-down of opera’s pretensions. Stark reworked it to incorporate some art world criticisms, looking at the divide between high and low culture. This dress embodies a high/low culture mash-up as well.
