Hair Flip (The End of Authentic Gestures) from Mike Fleming on Vimeo.
+ Mike Fleming's sculpture whipped her hair, back and forth, to mark "the end of authentic gestures".
There's something uncanny about artist Mike Fleming's Hair Flip (The End of Authentic Gestures).
Either way, we think Hair Flip (The End of Authentic Gestures) is giving Willow Smith a run for her money. .
I think that in lives of extreme innocence, untouched by sophistication, there may sometimes be this capacity for a bold, rash, authentic gesture, getting straight to the truth, while cleverer strategies only pussy-foot around it.
To satirize the myth of the authentic gesture, there are Abstract Expressionist-size, snowy-white canvases, each bearing a wide, brushy, diagonal swath of blue, a drippy blob of yellow and an explosive splatter of red.
If the public has become so immune to shock that only a dead shark in formaldehyde will awaken a brief spasm of outrage, then the artist must produce a dead shark in formaldehyde - this, at least, is an authentic gesture.
Kierkegaard's rejection of Regine Olsen's love is lauded for its expression of the need of giving one's own empirical life a definite, unambiguous form and thereby transforming it into absolute life in Kierkegaard's case, by attempting to perform an authentic gesture (1910c: 28).
An authentic Italian gesture which incited a lovely moment of nostalgia for twirling pasta with my grandma as a kid.
His Les Caves du Vatican (1914; The Vatican Cellars) caught the fancy of intellectuals with an anarchist bent, partly because of its celebration of the acte gratuit, undertaken not for gain or self-interest but as a gesture of authentic self-expression, but also because of its outrageously funny satire on humanity's submission to authoritarian systems of belief.
Before blessing the thousands crowding the square, and the billions watching around the world, Francis bowed and in majestic silence received the people's benediction, a gesture of authentic humility and friendship, and a reminder to all that it is often good first to listen to God and others before acting and pronouncing.
