This week got me thinking and writing a lot. Especially on the idea of "dead art." O'dherty speaks on Duchamp's, 1,200 bags of coal,, "every good gesture, Duchamp's Coal Bags becomes obvious post facto. Gestures a form of invention. THey can only be done once, unless everyone agreesto forget them. The best way of forgetting something is to assume it; or assumptions drop out of sight." This went with the classic artist fear that once the artist finally feel they have created or thought of a new idea another artist will either steal the idea or has already created it. O'dherty goes on to speak about what is really the artist biggest fear, that the patent art is the most distinguished and accepted work. That a artist may see some one patent their idea right infront of them. This goes with the idea, that when some one does something or thinks something for the first time people all around the world think the same thought. I do not know how I feel about the patenting of a certain type of art work, when there are so many artist creating. We could always argue- how do we know that the artist who patent a certain style or technique truly first created it or perfected it? I also thought about how modern shock art is made to make veiwers feel as if they are entering a taboo, instead of a practical joke, social experiment, or a mind trick. It seems that modern shock art is about sex or violence,and is plain boring to me, unless I am learning something.
I got to thinking about Mathew Barney, I know some would not call his art shock art ,and not all of it is. ...(Well right now I am thinking about him shoving something in his ass and calling it art.) I feel as if watching the cremaster is like reading an overdone memoir about someone's life who has no importance to me, and doesn't really teach me anything except his/her life lesson, not to say that the memoir does not have some beautiful metaphors and is entertaining- kind of like a movie in the summer but more flashy. I prefer to be entertained by education, I want to learn something through people's art. For instance koyaanisqatsi, these images don't need comentary like Mathew Barney's cremaster. Koyaanisqatsi is full of non-fictional images I have never had the chance to see I would have never thought about tons of abandoned apartment buildings blowing up, or a desert with no name, this film is relative to everyone. Barney seems like a bit of a narcissist to me, the veiwer has to follow his past just to figure out what Barney's personal symbols mean the veiwer also has to watch Barney run around doing all sorts of crazy dumb shit. He doesn't really teach us anything, yes the colors are bright and it is pretty and the cinematography is beautiful but I am not going to shit my pants over the concept. OK I am getting off topic. I was refering to Duchamp and how I would like to take him out to dinner and give him a kiss on the cheek for being so cynical and witty, and shocking with out shoving something up his ass. In the contrary I would also like to see art that is nostalgic to one maybe like trompe l'oeil- the sacred objects attached to shadow boxes and photographs are so precious to me. Art that makes the veiwer nostalgic is amazing. Or pictures or movies that will constantly be thought of when you are around someone or every time you see it. Yes I know my last installation was all about my past love life, but I hope that I wouldn't have to comment to much on it for people to understand and I hoped it would provoke emotion in the viewer and remind them of THEIR past relationships.
I also thought a lot about O'doherty's statement, "Documents and photographs challenge the historical imagination by presenting to it an art that is already dead, the historical process is both hampered and facilitated by removing the original in which it becomes increasingly fictitious as it's afterlives become more concrete." Oh wow I loved this it started me thinking about how pop culture can make a wonderful piece of art TERRIBLE. Lots of famous paintings we know are mass reproduced everywhere, like Davinchi or Edvard Munch as if we cannot escape them, I have been exposed to "the scream" since I was four and saw it in a children's book, the mona lisa is reffered to all the time and is constantly manipulated and destined to see. IS this now pop art- or are these works reincarnations pop art?-motley
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