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CHRISTIAN MARCLAY HATES ART
WIRE: October 2011 (p.40-47)
“Art funders are fine with Vito Acconci jerking off on the floor but listening to some crazy music is not acceptable”
In this response, I have taken “hating art” as comparable to “hating the art world and the structure and ideas that surround the art world”. And I believe Marclay very much dislikes the art-construct, evident in the social and experimental context of much of his work… Far from pristine balloon-dogs, here we find improvisation, failure, language, time, sound, performer - artist and audience interaction, collaboration, and much more; in accessible places and formats that facilitate social engagement. Could this be the canon of what I believe is totally contrary to the art-construct?
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JEFF KOONS LOVES ART
ARTFORUM: September 2008 (p.450-451)
“[The Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art’s] gallery guide touts Koons’ aspiration to create work that functions as “a powerful vehicle for self-acceptance and a democratic tool to transform the world”; its catalogue praises his celebration of “comfort as the ultimate way to achieve salvation”; and the artist himself, in a foyer video, discusses art’s ability “to let people know that everything about them is perfect”…”
COME ON, JEFF! …EVERYONE IS PERFECT?! Koons is obviously in love with (*ahem* his own ) art, evident in the above text. I feel that his thoughts on changing the world with inflatable shiny balloon-dogs is romantic and yes, perhaps possible in a perfect world (inasmuch as donation of a dollar to a homeless drunk would facilitate her progress toward sobriety). After all, isn’t that positive change what we would all wish to achieve through our creative efforts - and existence in general? Perhaps I’m not in tune with the potential of art, I don’t think about my “perfect” self when staring into the distorted reflection on a Koons piece, I think of the art history behind it - and of how silly a giant shiny inflatable dog is. I would very much like to meet the person who decides to dedicate her life to radical social change after visiting a Koons exhibition.
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Earth | Time Lapse View from Space, Fly Over | NASA, ISS (by Michael König)
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Name: David's Bathtub[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]
Performance / field recording with David’s bathtub in Shreveport, Louisiana.
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Refractions Installation
Considering a longer version of this video… Single channel (~15 minute) video loop, wall-size / large scale projection (dimensions variable)…
Possibly with a surround sound audio accompaniment: The desired effect of this sound is best described in the explanation of a story by Thomas Mann cited in a novel by Milan Kundera:
[Kundera explains Mann’s story in which a young man, mortally ill, gets off a train at an unknown station and takes rooms in a house in the unknown town]…
“…“in between the sounds made by his footsteps he heard another sound in the rooms on either side-a soft, clear metallic tone-but perhaps it was only an illusion. Like a golden ring falling into a silver basin, he thought… .” […] The reason I think Thomas Mann sounded that “soft, clear, metallic tone” was to create silence, the silence he needed to make the beauty audible, […] and if beauty is to be perceptible, it needs a certain minimal degree of silence (a perfect criterion of which happens to be the sound of a golden ring falling into a silver basin).”
I see the beauty that Kundera explains, in this instance, as the visual effect of the refracted/reflected sunlight on the wall in this video.
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Refractions (Work In Progress)
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