TracyShock
Last night's third installment of
ArtShock on Channel 4 was particularly revealing about the leading players [gender issues serving as a convenient displacement] of BritArt.
After witnessing, on the Tracy Emin-narrated-and-presented documentary, Tracy and Rachel Whiteread wandering mystified around Whiteread's Snow White and the 14,000 dwarfs, Tracy and a representative of the Royal Academy of Art agreeing that said institution is "actually quite progressive," and finally Tracy and yer wan driving off wherever in a gleaming Rolls Royce ("my birthday present - from ME!"), Emin was as clueless about the operation of capitalist patriarchy [in the art industry, as anywhere else] at the end of the programme as she was at the beginning ... perhaps because she's a fully-paid-up member ...??
That aside, try not to miss tomorrow night's fourth and final installment of the series: it features Slavoj Zizek frantically presenting his psychoanalytic treatment of some of cinema's classics [often diegetically - Zizek pondering in mock-ups of the films' sets] in
The Pervert's Guide To Cinema ...