David Rosetzky

Frieze Magazine

Australia Centre for Contemporary Art David Rosetzky’s video How to Feel (2011) features a group of six distinctly middle-class Australians partaking in an apparently ritualistic activity – equal parts dance rehearsal, group therapy and gymnastics routine – in an inner-suburban warehouse. […] The characters’ utter self-absorption – expressed through endlessly monotonous verbal exchanges – produces a fundamentally alienating effect, more dully repellent than remotely alluring. A high-gloss, fragmentary image of social togetherness, How to Feel succeeds in distilling an image of a mode of individualism that insists, above all else, on calling attention to itself in an overtly self-conscious fashion. —David Homewood