there
is this tension too I think between the protection and insulation that
'art' practices/ performances have, the way they are performances of
money so to speak, , and how when the 'real' public is invited, that is
the poor angry, disillusioned, to 'have a say' what gets said. The
vandalism of public sculpture for example, for an artist as my self, IS
the Fn point. To see the invisible SPEAK. But for most it is a great
tragedy. So in Abramovic's piece, for me there is this strange, but I
would postulate, joy, in the 'realness' of it. Yoko's too. - Tao Wells
Sunday, April 30, 2017
Tuesday, April 18, 2017
Slavoj Zizek Faces Cornel West
" I basically think that Derrida was right there, (Foucault vs Derrida) in detecting a kind of a trans-historical, moment of madness, in the very core of subjectivity and Cartesian cognito himself... "
Christ died alone. There was no resurrection, he did not get up and do the dishes. The 'return of Christ' is an attempt to preempt the returning motif of Christ destroying the idea of god.
" This gap between me and god, is transposed into god himself, .. to rejoin, I identify with Christ who was also abandoned. The very gap that separates me from god (grace) is part of divinity itself... abandonment leads to god"
What a fine trap
Monday, April 17, 2017
Sunday, April 16, 2017
Ad Reinhardt
Review - 25 Sep 2015
Ad Reinhardt
Malmö Konsthall, Sweden
By Matthew Rana
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Ad Reinhardt, How to Look at a Cubist Painting, 1946, printed newspaper tear sheet, 19 x 35 cm
‘Ad Reinhardt: Art vs. History’ featured approximately 300 of Reinhardt’s original illustrations, collages and cartoons. These included the well-known ‘How to Look’ (1946) series of playful educational strips published in the leftist newspaper PM, which sought to introduce the general public to the basics of modern art, and abstract painting in particular. In How to Look at a Cubist Painting (1946), for instance, a viewer’s incredulous query (‘What does this represent?’) is met with the anthropomorphized painting shouting back: ‘What do you represent?’ This exhibition, which took its title from one of Reinhardt’s essays for ArtNews, marked the first time these works have been shown in Europe, introducing a lesser-known aspect of the artist’s visual production at a moment when discussions on political satire, and cartooning especially, have a particular urgency.
In the few cases when Reinhardt’s drawings have been shown previously, it was largely to illustrate what his paintings were not – a practice in line with the distinctions that the artist upheld between pictures (representations) and paintings (line, shape and colour). But, in 1949, Reinhardt remarked of his painting and cartooning: ‘Contradictory as though these roles may seem, they can be viewed as aspects of a unified stance.’ Although much of the work in ‘Art vs. History’ was made long before the ‘black’ paintings that gained him notoriety, and seems to contradict the strategies of negation and refusal with which he is so strongly associated, for the most part the show left speculation aside regarding how Reinhardt’s freelance commercial work informed the development of his painterly practice.
Instead, the show presented his cartoons, illustrations and collages as art works in their own right. In the process, it rendered Reinhardt as idealistic and crestfallen by turns, yet steadfastly committed to his beliefs in internationalism and equality, as well as to the politics of looking. Smaller works – including spot illustrations and single-panel cartoons – revealed Reinhardt’s virtuosity as a visual communicator and are infused with a lightness nearly unthinkable within the frame of abstract expressionism, much less organized labour. One untitled illustration dated 1943–47 depicted an ‘unorganized employee’ riding a snail on his way to ‘better conditions’. Other works demonstrated the painter’s disdain for social realism, as well as his indebtedness to Russian constructivism, cubism, dada and surrealism. Often ironic and witty, when taken as a whole these works nonetheless registered deep tensions within Reinhardt’s visual practice, as well as his negotiation of concerns surrounding distribution, media and the integration of art and everyday life. It was evident in the collage, too, where photographic material was abstracted into geometrical compositions that he later used in his paintings. Here, it wasn’t purity at stake in modernism but hybridization and complexity.
As Michael Corris noted in his 2008 book on the artist, ‘radical politics, architecture, graphic design, mass media and abstract art: these are the terms of reference that organize and contextualize Reinhardt’s full creative practice’. From this perspective, Reinhardt’s interdisciplinary output also recalls Karl Marx’s oft-cited statement that in communist society, ‘nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he [sic] wishes.’ If today the divisions of labour within the arts are increasingly blurred, and every artist can make claims to being a writer, a designer, an editor, a critic and a curator, then it owes less to practices of cooperation and solidarity than to ragged individualism and economic precarity. What do you represent?
Wednesday, April 12, 2017
Tuesday, April 11, 2017
The Pervert's Guide To Ideology (Slavoj Žižek) - Christianism and Atheism
I think you can read the Christian gesture in a much more radical way,
This is what the crucifixion scene in Scorsese film shows us, what dies
on the cross is precisely this guarantee of the 'Big Other'. The message
of Christianity here, is radically Atheist. The death of Christ is not
any sort of redemption, or kind of commercial affair, in that Christ
suffers to 'pay' for our sins... . It's simply the disintegration of the
god that guarantees the meaning of our lives. And that's the meaning of
the famous phrase, "Father why have you forsaken me?". - quote I'm
aloneFREE
Sunday, April 9, 2017
Saturday, April 8, 2017
Friday, April 7, 2017
Wednesday, April 5, 2017
online, where the emotions of two year olds, reign in a kind of free to roam terror
Wells Tao Thanks Dick Whyte
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Alan Francais Stuart Shred a Billy Apple.
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Wells Tao I
think it was Schiller who talked of animals playing as a natural
cruelty that the human can not accept and therefore creates pathologies
exactly where we build. I see it online, where the emotions of two year
olds, reign in a kind of free to roam terror, that to me has great
beauty, for it's virtualness. AS if the internet was a nerve system of
an animal we've exterorised, to play, to be cruel.
Alan Francais Stuart MacDonagh and MacBride
And Connolly and Pearse
Now and in time to be,
Wherever green is worn,
Are changed, changed utterly:
A terrible beauty is born.
And Connolly and Pearse
Now and in time to be,
Wherever green is worn,
Are changed, changed utterly:
A terrible beauty is born.
Alan Francais Stuart “The way towards simplicity is through outrage.”
― William Golding, Darkness Visible
A variation, I guess, but exploring the same territory.
― William Golding, Darkness Visible
A variation, I guess, but exploring the same territory.
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Barry Thomas I recall a few weeks/months back with the vandalism of Tiffany Singh's work and then another with the theft of a bike with Paul Forrest
and found myself saying the same idea really... if you put yourself up
in public - expect the very worst... and even that is of value because
it is saying... this is what reaction 'my' work stimulates... and is
therefore a cultural metaphor/mirror.
Wells Tao YEH
BUT the cultural norm for the pose you've descirbed has a default of
'you just don't get it' which f's me off, with the 'artist' hiding
behind their PR machine enjoying the god power. F that.
Erica Duthie We
made a work for Cuba Dupa - lots of prep ground piece - had to struggle
with huge crowds walking over it oblivious (not all of course but
enough) first time I thought - hey I can understand why people encase
their art in glass and big "hands off gold
frames" and place them in culturally exclusive institutions... was a
weird experience.. encouraging people to touch your wall art is very
different to seeing the walk on your art...try to be generous but felt
definate flashes of rage...
Barry Thomas Par
for the proverb Erica... if you do it in public expect the worst. I
mean... with the cabbage patch I deliberately chose that my part would
only be illegally occupying the privately owned site, planting the
cabbages and I said publicly "The rest is up
to wellington..." ie the vandalism as Tao suggests - was designed in
from the outset... and my ownership, care was altered to accept that
whatever came as a result/reaction was part of it and is/was part of the
culture/art.
Erica Duthie yeah
in hindsight we should have factored that but have been strangely naive
- likely because our wall art tape work was so fragile but yet not
destroyed gave us a sense our work was respected and seen...
:)
:)
Erica Duthie Yeah
silly really spose, many of our projects have been about people seeing
and talking to us - and through us the art is an extension so the
connection to the makers and making is high - they are not pieces of
plop art
Barry Thomas I
think your work is brave, clever, dedicated... drunken yobs in festival
mode are kind of like hoping for a swim in the desert nay?
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Hope Williams Food for thought. I appreciate your depth of perception 
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Pete O'Blivion Thicko.
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