Janine Antoni: The Physics of Art and Life
Janine Antoni Touch 2002 Video still Courtesy of the artist and Luhring Augustine New York
The conceptual photographer, performance artist and sculptor Janine Antoni is perhaps best known for staging one of the most unconventional and provocative kisses in the history of art. In Mortar and Pestle, Antoni created a photographic tableau of the artist's tongue licking a man's eyeball in order to, as the artist put it, "know the taste of his vision."
In her subsequent projects, including Loving care, where the artist painted the gallery floor with hair dye using her head as a brush, and the more recent video Touch, in which she appears to walk on water by balancing on a strategically placed tightrope, Antoni developed a reputation for imbuing established conceptual practices with a new emotional tenor.
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Janine Antoni Touch 2002 Video still Courtesy of the artist and Luhring Augustine New York |
Next week, Canadians will have a rare opportunity to hear the Bahamas-born, New York–based artist discuss her groundbreaking, multi-sensory work at an artist's lecture and interview at the University of Waterloo’s Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics. Co-presented with the Kitchener-Waterloo
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Janine Antoni Loving care 1993 Courtesy of the artist and Luhring Augustine New York / photo Prudence Cumming Associates |
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