I visited the David Askevold exhibition today at Camden Arts Centre, after reading that he had worked with Tony Oursler, one of my faveourite video artists. I didn't find the work as engaging as Ourslers but there was some interesting documentation of performance, video, photographic and planning drawings. Askevold explores the supernatural, focusing on a ritualistic side of this idea with repetitive performances and films, and a poltergeist aesthetic.
Mike Kelley - “I have at times thought of David’s work as being a kind of structuralist take on Kenneth Anger’s psychosexual film rituals. Can delirium, while being experienced, be analysed? Wouldn’t doing so disrupt delirium’s seductive, mysterious qualities? Well, Askevold seemed to have his cake and eat it, too. He was a disorientation scientist.”
