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From Donald Trump to Rihanna, True Detective, and 50 Cent: this summer a new theatricality has become evident in American culture. The congruence of camp and violence has given us Young Thug, a rapper who calls his guns “dicks” for reasons nobody knows.
Harmony Korine’s film, Spring Breakers, is an antidote to The Hangover and other boys-will-be-boys movies with hearts of gold. A chick flick from hell, it captures a sense of post-political terror.
For many visitors, Jordan Wolfson’s robot represents a first contact with the most technologically developed and also most disturbing robot they have ever seen. But can the gallery space do justice to the experience? After all, a robot is only as evil as the world into which it is placed.
