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Gabo Camnitzer &听Lluis Alexandre Casanovas Blanco:聽Aesthetic Behavior; Developmental Sequences
Aesthetic Behavior; Developmental Sequences, is a collaboration by Gabo Camnitzer and Llu铆s Alexandre Casanovas Blanco, that uses the avatar of the child to reflect upon current modes of spectatorship and subjectivity. The project engages with the analysis of perception and knowledge acquisition as codified by child psychology, subverting the ways this field has denied agency to their research subjects through process of objectification, individualization, and ultimately, essentialization.
In the gallery, Aesthetic Behavior; Developmental Sequences manifests as a repertoire of objects and props which rethink procedures and instruments drawn from the history of child psychology. Amongst them, stands out a recreation of the observation dome designed by Arnold Gesell for his experiments on babies at Yale University during the early 20th Century. These props, situated at the intersection of surveillance mechanisms, tools for documentation, and clinical devices, sought to reduce experience and learning into mappable numbers.
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Aesthetic Behavior; Developmental Sequences, is a collaboration by Gabo Camnitzer and Llu铆s Alexandre Casanovas Blanco, that uses the avatar of the child to reflect upon current modes of spectatorship and subjectivity. The project engages with the analysis of perception and knowledge acquisition as codified by child psychology, subverting the ways this field has denied agency to their research subjects through process of objectification, individualization, and ultimately, essentialization.
In the gallery, Aesthetic Behavior; Developmental Sequences manifests as a repertoire of objects and props which rethink procedures and instruments drawn from the history of child psychology. Amongst them, stands out a recreation of the observation dome designed by Arnold Gesell for his experiments on babies at Yale University during the early 20th Century. These props, situated at the intersection of surveillance mechanisms, tools for documentation, and clinical devices, sought to reduce experience and learning into mappable numbers.
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