The trickster is a boundary crosser and a speaker of profanities. He is the “mythic embodiment of ambiguity and ambivalence, doubleness and duplicity, contradiction and paradox”.
The trickster can “bring to the surface a distinction previously hidden from sight”.
He disrupts and reshapes the world around him.
Robin Rhode as Trickster
Barbie Liberation Organization
Jonah Peretti tangles with Nike
For next Monday:
Find 3 artists who use trickster methods. Email me their work as a PDF or slide show with one image of each example, captions for each image, and one sentence for each image describing what the artwork is reacting to, or how it is meant to affect or engage viewers.
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