The blog title,
Dumb Object, is borrowed from the same paradox visible in Matias
Faldbakken’s unique ink jet print, Dumb Object 2006, which presents an
image of negation and erasure but which formerly and materially (with
it's allusion to the scale and influence of advertising billboards)
connotes power and control. The
science fiction
implication ( >post #1) as well as the work’s formal verticality and
monochrome blackness, suggest a further connection to Stanley Kubrick’s
monolith from the film 2001: A Space Odyssey. In the context of the
film, the implication of Kubrick’s monolith is the negation of human
intelligence and the erasure of the capacity of language as concepts of
human worth.The notions evident in these two works provide a jumping off
point for the discussion of other objects here –
dumb or otherwise.
