Jordan Woulfson: Colored Puppet
Colored Puppet by Jordan Woulfson on display at the Tate Modern Gallery in London.
"As the chains move, they lift the figure up and let it fall to the ground. This apparent act of violence may trigger a strong emotional response. However, the sense of shock is tempered by the awareness that the deliberately crude, loose-limbed figure is clearly just a collection of fibreglass parts connected by metal links."
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in response to the description: as a victim of child abuse myself, i'd say that the looseness of the figure doesn't take away from the shock or take away from the realism for me, but rather i really think it reflects the lack of power that comes with being a child in a situation of abuse. you very much feel like a rag doll: completely powerless to the forces of will that are happening to you and around you.
@MartynWhiteLondon
3 жыл бұрын
Woulfson never really explains fully the meaning of his work, one reason I really appreciate it as it is up for interpretation. Thank you so much for your comment and your take on the subject. The piece really does provoke a strong reaction so it is great to hear people's interpretations (as painful and shocking as sometimes they are). Thank you :)
This is probably one of the most eerie and unsettling exhibitions I’ve seen at Tate modern, it was so memorable when I saw it in person
Art like this will always be interesting to me it’s so different from what I normally see
The power in this piece is in it's lack of interpretation.
2. To kill you 3. To hold you 4. To bleed you 5. To touch you 6. To move you 7. To ice you 8. To put my teeth on you 9. To put my hand on you 10. To hand inside your hair 11. Your leg over my shoulder 12. Your mouth full of coffee 12. (again) (I didn't hear very well, but I think he said "I knew you") 13. I killed you 14. You're blind (I think he said that) 15. You're spoiled 16. To lift you 17. To show you 18. To weight you (I think he said that)
@starrysky1191
Жыл бұрын
15. You're spoiled 16. To lift you
@bim2693
Жыл бұрын
@@starrysky1191 thank you
@mrpercival5130
Жыл бұрын
Ahhhh!!!
@mrpercival5130
Жыл бұрын
But what is number one?
@starrysky1191
Жыл бұрын
@@mrpercival5130 there was no number one, it started like this, "two to kill you."
I saw this one as just an image and didn't get it, but in motion this is... one of the most horrible things I've seen, and I mean that in a positive way, it's accurate to child abuse and just the helpless pointless nature of it. Art is so wonderful and terrible all at once.
This made me think of sex trafficking and it broke my heart
I'd like to know why this is so disturbing to me. If it didn't resemble a child, and was a string of beads, it would be fascinating. But, I really don't like what it's doing to my emotions.
@heauxkage5611
5 ай бұрын
Feel the same way :(
@kele.w
4 ай бұрын
And that's why it's art.
This is like scary desturbing and much more it gives me a head ace
it's so dead yet alive
can somebody explain the counting to me? That's the only part i dont understand
@MrBellyman128
2 жыл бұрын
Something to do with the kids age but I don't fully understand it either
@exquisite3376
2 жыл бұрын
@@MrBellyman128 reading a list of what he wants to do to you/the audience
@potatoguy5428
Жыл бұрын
I don't understand anything
@kitten4ever303
Жыл бұрын
To me, it seemed to convey an age followed by a form of abuse/neglect
@the.moons.son5000
Жыл бұрын
What The abusive parents did to the kid at each age
Why does it only play the song for 2 seconds after all that
@turkiaz6581
Жыл бұрын
From my view of this part is “ When the song started to play the emotions hits different from weirdly dark to sadness but when it stopped those sad emotions fade away also with the song and I realised it’s just a two seconds of a song but the action still the same and it becomes more dark and disturbing “ But at the end it’s an art everyone see it from different way.
What's the name of the song?
Eerie and unsettling I like it
Fuerte, muy fuerte...
This wins. I made it to 6 and paused. Commented and left.
When I see this piece and Percy Sledge starts singing , I recall... "...you bitch...!"
Gruselig
prefect for next years Halloween display .
O también que sin las cadenas o esa voz no podría a blar ni moverme mientras los demás me ven y me escuchan pero sino me moviera ni ablara sería una tristes estatua que nadie entiende y solamente la voltearon a ver con desprecio
I don't get the countdown part...?
@maurovaldez5983
Жыл бұрын
its a list of things he wants to do to you and insults, i see it as revenge
@sammyaccount9563
Жыл бұрын
Someone said the numbers are the child's age and the things are what happens to the kid at the age but I don't know
@mygoodfriendcosmo
11 ай бұрын
i have 3 interpretations: things the character wants to do to you, the viewer who is watching and doing nothing to help them (figuratively speaking. it is a puppet) the age of the character and what happened to them each year a list of the things that the character has heard people (probably their parents, this really seems like it’s about child abuse to me) say they want to do to them.
Bruh
Qué sin piedad con las cadenas me siguen asotando para que mi pensar o lo que dije cambié de parecer
I think its funny like slapstick ❤
This shows how the aggressor becomes the victim.
Que isso?
@cristianod.b8152
2 жыл бұрын
Coisa de doido
@isa_west
2 жыл бұрын
Uma arte q representa abuso infantil , esse tipo d arte mostra problemas ao nosso redor d uma forma sutil assim como a obra cant help myself
1:00 Well I wonder how there going to make him dance with nothing attached to his other arm or leg? 2:32 Bruh
@MartynWhiteLondon
4 жыл бұрын
He is not dancing, he is being tortured.
@amberdorket9256
4 жыл бұрын
@@MartynWhiteLondon oh
@determined7786
4 күн бұрын
the lost of innocence on a KZread video
Do you ever feel like a plastic bag
@lastchanc3stars
Жыл бұрын
Floating through the wind
0:31 🔪☠️
Para mí representa que a pesar de estar atado nuestros pensamientos siguen siendo iguales y que solamente por estar encadenado no significa que mi decisión va a cambiar
How kpm treats us in malaysia:
@InaniwaUdon
Жыл бұрын
Hello fellow Malaysian
Squid Game, anyone?
Looks like what the mandates have done to all of us.
I not think Wolfson I looking for his identity but rather found it and it is not good. Hitler would have loved him. When this gunk is shown in a museum it too amusing. How eager they are to display their naïveté.
@AshKetchum442
3 жыл бұрын
What
@QueenRedRosemary
3 жыл бұрын
It’s not that deep.
@gayfrogs6762
3 жыл бұрын
It’s about the abuse a child goes through and how children react (the eyes have screens where they have emotions on them) and it’s about how a child is broken and damaged from that
@elizlyn8696
3 жыл бұрын
what????
@kyungrifan
3 жыл бұрын
You have serious issues