Performance Lecture of the Repository of Irrational Gestures (RIG’s): Dissonance in the era of Fake News

ATHERTON, Michelle (2019). Performance Lecture of the Repository of Irrational Gestures (RIG’s): Dissonance in the era of Fake News. [Artefact] [Artefact]

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Abstract
In recent years commentators have argued that a post-truth rhetoric has emerged from current populist movements. In an analysis of certain mass movements and motivations, both in the 1930’s and now, many observers are identifying the irrational within the rise of these so called populisms. Such movements are often characterised as irrational, fuelled by emotions and sentiment rather than logical debate. If it is possible to agree that the irrational describes those actions, thinking and behaviours that appear to be more illogical than other alternatives, it is in turn the case that normative conceptions of what constitutes a manifestation of irrationality is often problematic. It is not clear by whose standards we are to judge behaviour as rational or irrational. The performative lecture drew together clips form The Repository of Irrational Gestures (RIGs) archive. This is an artwork in the form of an archive that brings together fact and fiction through a montaged sequence of irrational gestures that will evolve over the duration of the talk. These gestures are collated from a multitude of sources including historical testimony, legends, insect noises, foundational myths, film clips, mathematical equations, avant-garde references and song lyrics. The performance lecture opened up the space to analyse current concepts and the purchase of the irrational; its positioning within fictions and its relation to the formulation of a post-truth culture.
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