In a way that connects to postwar art tendencies like French Situationism, Italian Arte Povera and even relational aesthetics, he emphasizes interactivity and randomness, embraces accident and takes what comes.
It is also why to dismiss "anti-art" tendencies today is to be blind to the way they permeate the entire history of modernism – in short, to be a stuckist.
There always has been, in British art, a tendency to elide the aesthetic and the scientific, beauty and hard fact.
A sculpture of a head, attached to a pump, constantly regurgitates its own pale blue vomit: a visceral reminder of art's tendency to eat itself.
But it makes an unnerving comment about art's tendency to look in the mirror and be captivated by its own reflection.
This will surely come as a natural consequence of the growth of data as a medium; for such is art's tendency toward self-reflexivity it will no doubt serve both functions simultaneously.
The thrust of the past few decades has been towards a theorisation of dance, and in consequence a favouring of the art-event tendency.
In the current ARTs, a tendency to optimize the cost/benefit ratio exists by providing more 'physiological' treatment conditions, including mild ovarian stimulation and single embryo transfer.
"Art has a tendency to be isolated and if we want more people to become part of the artistic process, then one way of doing that is to work with the everyday, such as food," she says.
His mostly lively, high-density Guggenheim installation is a homage to the artist Martin Wong (1946-99) that is consistent with Mr. Vo's self-effacing, shape-shifting art and his tendency to function as much as a curator or archaeologist as an artist.
