Response for week threee (Pg's. 132-192)
As it was said before, only in academics will one find all the magic of our universe reduced to mere logic and its mathematical consequence. They have literally reasoned the sun out of existence! I am comforted by the fact that all of humanity’s knowledge, math and physics or at least what they think they know, breaks down at the apogee of an event horizon. Just think of all that possible logic gone to waste. That is pretty much the opinion that I arrived at after I was finished with this weeks selected reading. Alternatively, it could be I did not understand a damn thing the author was attempting to express. So, is the book still effective? However not all is lost, as I do get it that the author is saying that contemporary artists are attempting, “to question existing systems through more private and individual means.” I think.
In suffering through the requirement, I just do not get those ‘inner circle epiphanies’ that artists evidently lament over. Concerning the categorization installations, I throw away about the same amount of ‘junk’ in a year. Junk! Categorization of objects by height, weight, color, density, volume, popularity, degrees of functionality and what ever other value system one can imagine somewhat eludes me. I mean if the museum ever caught fire, would not they be accused of being a bunch of pack rats, in the first place? Speaking of retrieval of memory, I did however, become keenly focused when the passages began to discuss time as a subject for from which to build upon or within, and I really do not need anyone to help me remember my past story and how the experience of time played a role in it.
In closing, I smiled a little when I read a small passage about how the Belgian artist Eric Duyckaerts, a scholar versed in law and philosophy turns the table on ‘academe speak’ by questioning the validity of rhetoric of experimentation and pedagogical discourse. I can fuse with this! This is the point where I believe I jump ship with other hybrid forms from the ceaseless monotony, and attempt to build my own parody of Utopia based on anarchic vision. My ending question is not from the text, although it does have to do with our field trip. If we ever do another field trip, would it be possible to do one less event and invest more time in another?
