Omar Kholeif on the blurring of fact and fiction in the age of YouTube
While the idea of a constructed self was played out by artists amid the identity politics of the 1980s, the rise of social networks and online video has allowed a new generation to torque cultural stereotypes. Does the interpersonal nature of video-sharing websites make them the perfect platform to examine the manufacture of identity?
‘The process of using the “self” to espouse critical commentary about identity issues is hardly a new phenomenon. Still, new media have made the performance and documentation of the “self” a nearly ubitquitous mode of artistic practice.’
Available in Art Monthly Issue 343.
