N, as in Nancy, 2011. Two-channel video: 3:09 minutes This video, along with the other works in Matt Keegan’s Realia, on view at the Athenaeum through March 22, are informed by a set of 400 double-sided image-based flash cards his mother made between the late 1980s to mid-2000s to teach English to high school and adult...
N, as in Nancy, 2011. Two-channel video: 3:09 minutes
This video, along with the other works in Matt Keegan’s Realia, on view at the Athenaeum through March 22, are informed by a set of 400 double-sided image-based flash cards his mother made between the late 1980s to mid-2000s to teach English to high school and adult ed students.
In Keegan’s interpretation, the images featured on the cards become part of an associative game of logic, pointing to the endless construction of codes, both symbolic and cultural. “Behind every image is another image” the postmodernist historian Douglas Crimp once wrote, and now Keegan might add, behind every word is another word in a complex and neverending proliferation of meaning.
