Tim Schultz is an Australian artist who lives and works in Sydney.

He is presently engaged in a doctorate degree at Sydney College of the Arts.

The title of his doctoral thesis is “Perversity of the Recrudescent Rococo”.

“In the Freudian discourse, perversity belongs both to the pre-Oedipal infant and to the imperfectly Oedipalised subject. My thesis is to propose a metaphor of the eighteenth century Rococo as the pre-Oedipal perversity of the Freudian subject, whose nineteenth century resistance to Oedipalisation produces the perverse subject, resistant to modernity, of the recrudescent Rococo”.

“The cyclopean orb is a phantom, mounted in the perverse idealization of spectral Second Empire fashions. Its pupil is the vanishing point, a hollow cartouche like the orifice in the perfume burner, dispensing and absorbing the milky light that shines on Narcissus. Why is Second Empire Rococo so sinister and droll?”

barondeschultz@gmail.com