Oursler

I found this response to be rather difficult to put into words. After viewing the past few artists in class, Tony Oursler stood out to me, but for all the wrong reasons. Usually in a piece, I can find one thing of which I can relate to in order to keep my interest in the work. For Oursler’s work, I found no such connection. I actually found his pieces to be rather obnoxious. For me, the annoying part of his work was not so much the creepy skulls or the shrilling voices, but rather the lack of a deeper emotional feeling. I found his pieces to be superficial and lacking emotion. I am aware that there was supposed to be a deeper meaning and such, but for me, it did not hit me at all. I feel like I may have gotten a better response if I was able to see the work in person, but I just feel like it was a let-down. I feel like I can walk away from the piece, and have nothing to say. This is not the point of conceptual art. Conceptual art is supposed to spark an interest and a conversation. I left class feeling underwhelmed. I am not sure if the works just didn’t live up to some of the more radical and controversial pieces we have looked at so far this quarter, but I just found him to be superficial and almost pointless. In all honesty, I can’t even really remember what the message of his pieces was supposed to be, therefore, for me, the pieces were useless. Conceptual art is meant to make you think, but his pieces made me annoyed.