Art sculpture based on the harrow of Kafka's In the Penal Colony
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| Photograph: Marina Galperina/ANIMALNewYork |
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| Photograph: Marina Galperina/ANIMALNewYork |
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| Photograph: Marina Galperina/ANIMALNewYork |
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| Photograph: Marina Galperina/ANIMALNewYork |
So here’s the Harrow IRL. It was originally created for an exhibition at the Kunsthalle Bern in 1975. The exhibition riffed off Michel Carroughe’s essay “The Bachelor Machines,” which tied the torture device to some others by fancied in fiction and art by Edgar Allan Poe, Jules Verne and Marcel Duchamp.Also at A Piece of Monologue:
It’s an impressive machine. Kunsthalle Bern curator Harald Szeemann wants you to recognize what the machines stand for — “the omnipotence of eroticism and its negation, for death and immortality, for torture and Disneyland, for fall and resurrection.” [Read More]
