It’s just a little headache; it’s just a little bruise, Redemption of the flesh The politics of the future as urgent as the blue sky, 2008
Thursday, February 12, 2009, 5:30pm | Center for Creative Photography 108
A strategic provocateur, Daniel J. Martinez deploys the full range of available media in his practice, having used at various times text, image, sculpture, video, and performance to construct his uniquely tough-minded brand of aesthetic inquiry. Using forms of strategic engagement and illusion, Martinez employs mutation and schizophrenia as a form of confusion directed toward the precondition of the coexistence of politics as radical beauty. Ongoing themes in the work are contamination, history, nomadic power, cultural resistance, dissentience and systems of symbolic exchange.
Martinez is currently exhibiting work in the Orange County Museum of Art, Disorderly Conduct, and El Museo Del Barrio. His latest piece, Divine Violence, was recently installed in the 2008 Whitney Biennial. And he was awarded the United States Artists fellowship in 2008.
He is a Professor of Theory, Practice, and Mediation of Contemporary Art at the University of California Irvine, where he teaches in the Graduate Studies Program and New Genres Department.
An ongoing project is the building of a doomsday machine, a transporter and a time machine to change the past in order to affect the future.
