Fuzzy logic

Dominic Angel (France), Messieurs Delmotte (Belgique), Eric Duyckaerts (Belgique), Halflifers (États-Unis), Karin Kihlberg et Reuben Henry (Angleterre), Meesoo Lee (Canada), Paul McCarthy (États-Unis), Shana Moulton (États-Unis), Erik Olofsen (Hollande), Alix Pearlstein (États-Unis), Yudi Sewraj (Canada), Harald Thys & Jos de Gruyter (Belgique).

A video program by Patrice Duhamel

Comprised of two axes, one investigating science, and the other fiction, the program Fuzzy Logic is steeped in idiocy. What “idiot” is, in its fundamental sense, is untranslatable, irreducible. As Jean-Yves Jouannais suggests in his book L’idiotie (“Idiocy”), it will be a question here, of observing how these video practices articulate themselves as forms of life, art, politics and resistance.

These “deviant” practices exhaust us. They present themselves as disqualified and limping, but nothing is able to strip their passionate determination from them. We like these practices because they reproduce not only the sacrificial figure of the artist that society requires to validate its laws of behavior, but also because they depict the artist who, literally, blows it. We hate these practices, or love to hate them, because they make us laugh at what we do not ourselves do, while making us forget that it is only art.