Jesse Among the Chickens, Sparta, Wisconsin

James Alinder, artist

born 1941

Jesse Among the Chickens, Sparta, Wisconsin, 1971

Where object was made: United States

Material/technique: gelatin silver print

Dimensions:
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 19.4 x 42.4 cm
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 7 5/8 x 16 11/16 in
Mat Dimensions (Height x Width): 20 x 25 in

Credit line: Museum purchase

Accession number: 1972.0272

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"Conversation VIII: Serious Play," Jun-2010, Kate Meyer and Susan Earle
When we play we have fun.The works on view in this installation have been selected to respond to the video by Pipilotti Rist, I Want to See How You See. Many of these objects draw upon memories of childhood or references to childhood and the body to produce biographic narratives. In many instances, these memories are subversions of the ideal innocence of youth portrayed by fiction. Childhood can be a time of anxiety or repression that informs our experiences as adults. Another theme suggested by the video relates to multiple and distorted perspectives of vision. For his photographs, James Alinder employs a fisheye lens to deliver surrealistic perspectives. For his triptych, Robert Rauschenberg incorporates a distortion-lens camera to produce the central panel, which includes an oval-shaped text that lists the key events and influences in the artist’s life. In Rist’s video, these explorations of perspective appear to link the idea of vision (seeing) with perception (understanding).