Robert Ladislas Derr
Pittsburgh TribuneIdeology, 2000
Ideology recontextualizes the modernist myth of the heroic artist’s masculinity. I have taken the action and angst from Jackson Pollock, and incorporated it utilizing the "Pollockian Performative" to subvert the process of action painting and this myth. My video documents me being assaulted by white paint balls taking performance beyond the elementary existential exercise, to expand upon the act of painting and the act of making art.