Performance in these internal plays is always unsatisfactory in some respect, and the audience must for the most part read Shakespeare's own views on theatrical matters in reverse of these mirror stages.
"Do you think people say to Cate Blanchett, 'Oh, you do Dylan — who else do you do?' " Kelly asked, smirking, as he walked through Chelsea on a hot afternoon on his way to Alexander Gray's gallery, where a show of his paintings, called "The Mirror Stages: Self-Portraits, 1979-2009," was on view.
Listening to records became a kind of mirror stage through which musicians confronted their "true" selves.
"360° Illusion," which inevitably conjures the mirrored architectural interventions of Dan Graham, is a provocative mix of formalism and psychoanalysis (think Lacan's "mirror stage").
Like much of Mr. Oursler's oeuvre, the work is ripe with psychoanalytic references: Freud, Jacques Lacan, D. W. Winnicott, Melanie Klein; the principles of the uncanny, narcissism, mirror stage, object relations and so on.
Silent Film, Sound of Glass Orpheus falls through the movie mirror (a painted backdrop mirror stage) and wakes to find his face lying not in but on a pool of water which takes that face and gives it back, resembling but no longer his.
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