The wheel bears no resemblance to a leg
By: Erick Meyenberg ; translators, Christopher Leland Winks, Christopher Fraga
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 167
ISBN-13: 9781879128422
Subjects: Performance art
Other titles: Erick Meyenberg :
Description: Composed of a three-channel projection, flags, a relief sculpture, and archival materials, 'The wheel bears no resemblance to a leg' takes its enigmatic title from the 1917 prologue to Guillaume Apollinaire's 1903 play 'Les mamelles de Tirésias' (The Breasts of Tiresias). Meyenberg's project translates these sources into a critical stance toward normative pedagogical structures; here taking the form of uniforms, discipline, education, gender, the state, and symbols of nationhood; and a conception of the surreal not as an evasion of reality, but as an invitation to surmount other realities. Culminating in a synesthetic experience, 'The wheel bears no resemblance to a leg' suggests the complexities of Mexican modernity.
Notes: Published in conjunction with the exhibition: Erick Meyenberg : the wheel bears no resemblance to a leg held at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, October 14, 2016-February 19, 2017, and at Americas Society Art Gallery, New York,  May 3-July 22, 2017.