This Situation
From Adbusters #77, The Global Moment, an article titled Your Moment of Truth by Laurel Saville. It’s about an art piece by Tino Sehgal called “This Situation.”
As with his other pieces, he is looking for a deeper level of engagement between art and audience. In “This Is New,” museum attendancts read newspaper headlines and visitor responses determine the continuation of the work. In “This Success/This Failure,” young children pull passersby into an empty room to play. In “The Situation,” Seghal is asking the audience to consider larger issues along with the players, while expressing his discomfort with our culture’s love affair with consumption and his impatience with the conventional search for political solutions.
“The big new task of my generation is, how can we morally defend our lifestyle, which will not be possible for future generations,” he says. “A political solution won’t do it.”