Details
Shrink! 1.1-4

Taking its name from The Notwist’s 1998 album (and no doubt also riffing on the informal term for a psychoanalyst), the ‘Shrink’ videos depict text overlaid on found footage of a pre-9/11, Rudolph Giuliani-era New York skyline. The same four songs – ‘Chemicals’, ‘No Encore’, ‘Shrink’ and ‘Your Signs’ – score a panoply of texts ranging from Susan Buck-Morss’s tome on Walter Benjamin, Dialectics of Seeing (1989), to a 1988 interview between art historian Kellie Jones and Hammons, whose blunt rejection of white cultural imperialism plays against The Notwist’s strummy guitars and rattling electronic beats. This sensory overload of music and text illustrates Cokes’s own media politics and his ideas about labour and creativity. ‘Don’t you know’, reads one of Hammons’s responses, scrolling a bit too fast, ‘chasing these stories is what it is?’ [Overview courtesy of Frieze]

Back to main page

Shrink! 1.1-4

Video reviews

There are no video reviews for this movie yet.

It looks like there are no video reviews for this movie yet. Have you watched it? Be the first one to upload a video review!

New video review
Video reviews
0 review(s)
Text reviews
0 review(s)

New to Criticate?

Sign up now to be able to rate and review games, movies and tv shows!

Sign up