Paul McCarthy
Artwork Detail
Paul McCarthy ritually oversteps boundaries with works that confront social taboos. 'Family Tyranny and Cultural Soup' are savage improvised parodies of sanitised TV sit-coms, starring artist Mike Kelley as the ‘son’ and McCarthy as a tyrannical and infantile father. McCarthy often features in his performance
videos, presenting himself as a primal subject in an unholy theatre of sex and violence. Corrupting the categories and distinctions that underpin our social order, McCarthy’s sinister comedies messily dissect popular culture and its inherent social conditioning.
- Title
- Family Tyranny/Cultural Soup
- Artist/creator
- Paul McCarthy
- Production date
- 1987
- Medium
- single channel video, standard definition (SD), 4:3, colour, stereo sound
- Dimensions
- 15min 12sec
- Credit line
- Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, purchased 2005
- Accession no
- 2005/12
- Other ID
- X2005/15 Old Accession Number
- Copyright
- Copying restrictions apply
- Department
- International Art
- Display status
- Not on display
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