Reify Me Daddy (2022) Single channel video (color, sound), 6:26 minutes This piece was in the Automated Carnalitiesshow at List Art Building.
"Queer at McKinsey. Trans military generals. When I see such impotent, noxious queerness, I think about the individualism Lukács sees in capitalism. Here, the connections between bosses, laborers, commodities and wages are shrouded in the myth of the monad, a rational economic subject. I scream to the sky, how can you people not see the violence in your actions. Lukács writes: only by integrating the isolated facts of social life and aspects of the historical process into a totality can one have knowledge of reality
At the end of his book, Lukács, following Marx, writes that the proletariat only perfects itself by annihilating and transcending itself. This process is as much a battle of the proletariat with itself as with the bourgeois, a fight of strikers and scabs. One of the most pernicious myths of flaccid neoliberal diversity politics is that identity is enough. Are you ready to join the picket line of queerness?”
kolya shields 