ART HIST 3AA3: More Fischli and Weiss

In the early 1980s the artists Fischli and Weiss (see entry below) made two films in which they assumed the roles of two characters, Rat and Bear. The first of these films, The Least Resistance (1981) set the characters in Los Angeles (where Fischli and Weiss were living at the time) while the second film, The Right Way (1982-83) presented the characters in a sublime wilderness setting. In each film the characters attempt to wrestle with existentialist questions. A book titled Order and Cleanliness (1981) continued this thread by presenting the ideas of Rat and Bear as they attempt to make order out of the world.

Here is a clip from The Right Way: