When Mike Kelly writes of the uncanny in his essay on Doug Huebler he refers to, "What looks so familiar, becomes ungraspable." This--like his essay to the eponymous exhibition--implies the definition derived from the supernatural. There is another way of looking at it, that is, the exceptional.
In one of my last projects at Harbor -UCLA I had a chance to work with individuals who had undergone an exhaustive battery of neuropsychologial testing. The tests had almost no correlation to the study's outcomes: returning to work after being on disability. Those with I.Q.s at both tails of the bell curve were equally likely (or unlikely) to return to work. What I found interesting was that those rare individuals at both ends of the spectrum seemed to have similar difficulties when it came to social interactions.
In some ways, my measures of myself and my interests fall outside the norm compared to my friends, peers, and colleagues. Call it short bus syndrome or exceptional, it plugs into the world in the same way.
That being said, I plan on intermittent posting of images of the exceptional in addition to my thoughts and musings on art.
February 14, 2008
From the Uncanny to the Exceptional
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