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Douglas Crimp early on named such strategies in Jonas's practice "desynchronization," updating Brechtian Verfremdungseffekt (estrangement or alienation) to include literal fragmentation and repetition and to point to Jonas's insistence that artwork, artist, and audience become productively, if sometimes queasily, decentered. Sanchez squints and grins queasily through it all; everyone else plays rote stereotypes. Shrewdly Peirce keeps scenes of Brandon's undressing shielded, building curiosity; and when the nasties finally turn on Brandon, tearing her clothes off while forcing the girlfriend to watch, it's a profoundly disturbing moment-a savage reduction to the facts of gender, in which your own urge to pin her down feels queasily like complicity. |
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