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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  • @ashsilva7021
    @ashsilva70213 жыл бұрын

    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

    @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 :)

  • @Edmundyu1995
    @Edmundyu1995 Жыл бұрын

    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

  • @Tordthecreator
    @Tordthecreator Жыл бұрын

    Art like this will always be interesting to me it’s so different from what I normally see

  • @sarataylor885
    @sarataylor8852 жыл бұрын

    The power in this piece is in it's lack of interpretation.

  • @bim2693
    @bim2693 Жыл бұрын

    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

    @starrysky1191

    Жыл бұрын

    15. You're spoiled 16. To lift you

  • @bim2693

    @bim2693

    Жыл бұрын

    @@starrysky1191 thank you

  • @mrpercival5130

    @mrpercival5130

    Жыл бұрын

    Ahhhh!!!

  • @mrpercival5130

    @mrpercival5130

    Жыл бұрын

    But what is number one?

  • @starrysky1191

    @starrysky1191

    Жыл бұрын

    @@mrpercival5130 there was no number one, it started like this, "two to kill you."

  • @duxwontobey4887
    @duxwontobey4887 Жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @arlettejaramillo3656
    @arlettejaramillo36562 жыл бұрын

    This made me think of sex trafficking and it broke my heart

  • @ronaldbissett5
    @ronaldbissett52 жыл бұрын

    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

    @heauxkage5611

    5 ай бұрын

    Feel the same way :(

  • @kele.w

    @kele.w

    4 ай бұрын

    And that's why it's art.

  • @siuuuuuuuuuu360
    @siuuuuuuuuuu360 Жыл бұрын

    This is like scary desturbing and much more it gives me a head ace

  • @jacksonpatterson1415
    @jacksonpatterson1415 Жыл бұрын

    it's so dead yet alive

  • @joviek
    @joviek2 жыл бұрын

    can somebody explain the counting to me? That's the only part i dont understand

  • @MrBellyman128

    @MrBellyman128

    2 жыл бұрын

    Something to do with the kids age but I don't fully understand it either

  • @exquisite3376

    @exquisite3376

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@MrBellyman128 reading a list of what he wants to do to you/the audience

  • @potatoguy5428

    @potatoguy5428

    Жыл бұрын

    I don't understand anything

  • @kitten4ever303

    @kitten4ever303

    Жыл бұрын

    To me, it seemed to convey an age followed by a form of abuse/neglect

  • @the.moons.son5000

    @the.moons.son5000

    Жыл бұрын

    What The abusive parents did to the kid at each age

  • @elementalb3m957
    @elementalb3m9572 жыл бұрын

    Why does it only play the song for 2 seconds after all that

  • @turkiaz6581

    @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.

  • @marioenriquehernandezrodri7731
    @marioenriquehernandezrodri77316 ай бұрын

    What's the name of the song?

  • @loriellyellowtail5938
    @loriellyellowtail5938 Жыл бұрын

    Eerie and unsettling I like it

  • @elisaalcaraz7155
    @elisaalcaraz71559 ай бұрын

    Fuerte, muy fuerte...

  • @thetruth1925
    @thetruth1925 Жыл бұрын

    This wins. I made it to 6 and paused. Commented and left.

  • @eduardoegea6008
    @eduardoegea60082 жыл бұрын

    When I see this piece and Percy Sledge starts singing , I recall... "...you bitch...!"

  • @malteeevb4933
    @malteeevb49334 жыл бұрын

    Gruselig

  • @pcaetano7527
    @pcaetano75272 жыл бұрын

    prefect for next years Halloween display .

  • @Renata-jm3gi
    @Renata-jm3gi Жыл бұрын

    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

  • @francinesmith7884
    @francinesmith7884 Жыл бұрын

    I don't get the countdown part...?

  • @maurovaldez5983

    @maurovaldez5983

    Жыл бұрын

    its a list of things he wants to do to you and insults, i see it as revenge

  • @sammyaccount9563

    @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

    @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.

  • @ethantarpley
    @ethantarpley3 жыл бұрын

    Bruh

  • @Renata-jm3gi
    @Renata-jm3gi Жыл бұрын

    Qué sin piedad con las cadenas me siguen asotando para que mi pensar o lo que dije cambié de parecer

  • @ITcanB
    @ITcanB2 ай бұрын

    I think its funny like slapstick ❤

  • @Soniagacha830
    @Soniagacha8302 ай бұрын

    This shows how the aggressor becomes the victim.

  • @jucarasuelibueno7036
    @jucarasuelibueno70363 жыл бұрын

    Que isso?

  • @cristianod.b8152

    @cristianod.b8152

    2 жыл бұрын

    Coisa de doido

  • @isa_west

    @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

  • @amberdorket9256
    @amberdorket92564 жыл бұрын

    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

    @MartynWhiteLondon

    4 жыл бұрын

    He is not dancing, he is being tortured.

  • @amberdorket9256

    @amberdorket9256

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@MartynWhiteLondon oh

  • @determined7786

    @determined7786

    4 күн бұрын

    the lost of innocence on a KZread video

  • @mugs9925
    @mugs9925 Жыл бұрын

    Do you ever feel like a plastic bag

  • @lastchanc3stars

    @lastchanc3stars

    Жыл бұрын

    Floating through the wind

  • @comvlog1132
    @comvlog1132 Жыл бұрын

    0:31 🔪☠️

  • @Renata-jm3gi
    @Renata-jm3gi Жыл бұрын

    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

  • @fitness_ninja5744
    @fitness_ninja57442 жыл бұрын

    How kpm treats us in malaysia:

  • @InaniwaUdon

    @InaniwaUdon

    Жыл бұрын

    Hello fellow Malaysian

  • @stephenausherman8196
    @stephenausherman8196 Жыл бұрын

    Squid Game, anyone?

  • @OneHelmet61
    @OneHelmet612 жыл бұрын

    Looks like what the mandates have done to all of us.

  • @joycefroney6162
    @joycefroney61624 жыл бұрын

    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

    @AshKetchum442

    3 жыл бұрын

    What

  • @QueenRedRosemary

    @QueenRedRosemary

    3 жыл бұрын

    It’s not that deep.

  • @gayfrogs6762

    @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

    @elizlyn8696

    3 жыл бұрын

    what????

  • @kyungrifan

    @kyungrifan

    3 жыл бұрын

    You have serious issues