Archive for April, 2010
Liam Gillick’s presentation at the Creative Time Summit: Revolutions in Public Practice, Oct 24, 2009
April 16, 2010 by admin, under thoughts.
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Marcel Duchamp clip from The Shock of the New (1982) The Mechanical Paradise
April 11, 2010 by admin, under artworks, bio-feedback / cybernetics, formal / structural / grids, inter-bodies / half-objects, mirrors / displays / frames, videos.
Here we can see Duchamp’s shift from linear thinking (Nude Descending Staircase) to something more circular (Bride Stripped Bare..), something he would later call “delay”, as Jerrold Segal notes, “suspended in a space it never traverses.”
The clip of course seems to reffer more to these movements in relation to asthetics, psychological and (male) sexual frustration. What is lacking in Robert Hughes analysis lies in relation to a social, political and economical shifts occuring at the time: a shift from a simplified modernist linear progression of technology moving towards a more lateral, circular and rhizomatic technological progression in a lumming post-modern era.
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3#
April 10, 2010 by admin, under artworks, film / photographic.
3#” uses a track “composed” by media artist Seth Price, its music based on the forms of 1980s electronic pop songs. Price uses music production software to copy the structure of popular music from the recent past. By editing out one element (in this case, the singer), he comments on the genre through an imperfect copy. The video uses text (some quoted from Morrissey’s lyrics) and graphic transitions to outline an argument about how and why pop music functions, pointing to its promises of unique, infamous, and sublime experiences through repetition and mass distribution.