File Under: Slime Michlig Christopher
File Under: Slime Michlig Christopher What is slime?We are well acquainted with its qualities in conjunction with certain things from which we tend to recoil but to which we are also at times…
Specifikacia File Under: Slime Michlig Christopher
File Under: Slime Michlig Christopher
What is slime?We are well acquainted with its qualities in conjunction with certain things from which we tend to recoil but to which we are also at times fervently attracted. File Under: Slime collates a cultural history of "slime" and "sliminess," with particular emphasis on precedents in pop-culture, contemporary art, ecology, science fiction, literature, critical theory, and cinema.The appearance of slime in such films as The Blob, Ghostbusters, and Poltergeist are diligently and humorously analyzed, commercial and graphic design precedents are incorporated, and the work of such artists as Lynda Benglis, Cindy Sherman, Robert Smithson, Sterling Ruby, and Jason Rhoades are connected within a broad mesh of corollary Despite being everywhere, slime is a surprisingly unexamined cultural phenomenon.