25 September 2024

25 September from 6:30 – 9:00 PM

Location: 2C books annex (319 N. 11th st., 2nd flr.)

Currently exhibiting artist Misha Wyllie will lead the discussion.

Snacks and light refreshments will be provided.

Download: Vision and Insufficiency at the Turn of the Millennium: Rosemarie Trockel’s Distracted Eye

Christine Ross’s article “Vision and Insufficiency at the Turn of the Millennium: Rosemarie Trockel’s Distracted Eye” delves into the work of contemporary German artist Rosemarie Trockel and her exploration of visual media and perception. Ross examines how Trockel’s art critiques and reflects on the conditions of seeing and understanding, and in turn, notions of identity in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.
In the article, Ross highlights how Trockel’s work disrupts traditional modes of viewing and interpretation, representing a “distracted eye” that illustrates contemporary conditions of cognition tied to perception, “insufficiency, distractedness, depression, disidentification, failed recognitions…”. Trockel’s art, according to Ross, not only addresses issues of visual overload and the insufficiency of human vision in a media-saturated world, but proposes a productive relationship with these conditions.
Ross also explores how Trockel’s practice engages with themes of gender, identity, and the body, questioning how these elements are represented and perceived in contemporary visual culture. Through her innovative use of various media and techniques, Trockel’s work reflects on the limitations and possibilities of seeing and understanding with the technological transformations of visual media which Ross argues offer the potential for new forms of agency.