Gazing at Fiction in Brussels
Europe as Forgery in David Černý's Entropa
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12417142 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lina Zigelyte (University of Rochester, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 54-67 |
| Publication date | 2012-01-04 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | European Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1062-7987 • E-ISSN: 1474-0575 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s1062798711000305 |
| OpenAlex | W2109011036 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 16 |
This article explores issues of visual representations and the interaction between fiction and reality in the making of the ‘idea of Europe’. It specifically focuses on David Černý's installation Entropa, exhibited at the headquarters of the Council of the European Union in 2009. The article argues that, despite the use of national stereotypes as the most characteristic representational element of the installation, Entropa does not limit itself to a sardonic critique of a political institution and a ridicule of national identities. Rather, it unveils the uneasiness of facing European identity as fiction. Entropa challenges the boundary between theatricality and reality, because it is exhibited in a political institution. The installation is addressed as a narrative of confusion, where fiction and fact interact in the construction of ideas on Europe, its history, politics, and culture. Therefore, the article concludes, such interaction potentially accommodates a critical standpoint towards the idea of Europe itself
Aesthetics · Art · Confusion · Element (criminal law · European union · Identity (music · Institution · Literature · Media studies · Narrative · Political science · Politics · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · Balkans: History, Politics, Society · Cyprus History, Politics, Society · European Cultural and National Identity · Law · Psychology
Europe
Cultures of Forgery
Metahistory
The Idea of Europe
Invention of Tradition
Perform or Else
Media and Cultural Studies
Unhappy Engineers of the European Soul
Role Playing and Identity
Imagined communities
Europe
Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy
Imagined Communities. Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
Europeanization
| Citations per year | 0.2 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2021 - 2021 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |