Images for final project

link to gallery of installation work:
http://cuselight.blogspot.com/2009/04/transverse.html

Relational Aesthetics

vs.

"The prices for replicas, editions, or works that have some ephemeral trace of Duchamp reached its peak with the purchase of a 1964 replica of "Fountain" from an edition of eight, for $1.7 million at Sotheby's in November 1999. " ^[15]

- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fountain_%28Duchamp%29








Postproduction by Nicoles Bourriard
Bourriaud Relational Aesthetics Glossary
From Relational Aesthetics by Bourriard
The Radicant by Bourriard

It's interesting to think about how the money and the market in art complicates all these theories we have been reading. For example, Bourriard talks about the originality of works as being a kind of territory for which artists combat other artists. The readymade changes this idea by removing the material of the objects from their territory and thereby removing the importance of the author, and in the end displacing the territorial nature of its originality. Thus, Bourriard says, Duchamp's bicycle wheel is not owned by anyone. If it is destroyed, it can be made again by anyone. But the market value on the 'original' bicycle wheel would have us think differently.

pop art is relational aesthetics?

Modernism, Post Modernism

"If we are to break out of the non-historical fixity of post-modernism, then we must search out and counterpose an alternative tradition taken from the neglected works left in the wide margin of the century, a tradition which may address itself not to this by now exploitable because quite inhuman rewriting of the past but, for all our sakes, to a modern future in which community may be imagined again"
Raymond Williams "when was modernism"

But of course, this alternative mode will also soon be absorbed into the cultural apparatus and be readily "become the easy iconography of the commercials" as Williams states earlier. The artists' problems will never be solved if they seek to distinguish themselves apart from this cultural apparatus, this mass culture. There is no escape from it. There is no 'empty (sacred) place of the Thing exempted from the circuit of everyday economy' as Zizek says. There is no special void that art specially fills. We live in the immense void and everything that is produced within it is a small thing that joins the circuit of everyday economy. No art has enough power itself to be sacred or powerful enough to amount to anything significant enough to influence culture. By itself it cannot do it. That is why artists now join movements, contribute to already existing causes and ideologies. We are unable to create our own and affect our own break from modernism or post-modernism. Positing a "future in which community may be imagined again" for the sake of breaking from a certain formula or artistic era is futile and meaningless. It becomes art for art's sake, even if it appears to be more than such at first. Artists instead are contributing their voice to the larger dialogue in the discussion of global warming, capitalism, feminism, globalism, etc. If it means continuing the production of images that "become the easy iconography of the commercials" or not-breaking from previous traditions, artists do so anyway, because the causes now take greater priority over theorized artistic practices. In short, perhaps what I mean to say is that the past few decades of artistic production are still too recent to accurately analyze.


The emptiness of things and the filling of their emptinesses by art:

The pressure to produce

PUSH by Common Market

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qR4_lFmxEY


Write up soon..

Archive of things in my apt.

digital list:

LG rice cooker
General Electric refrigerator
3rd generation ipod
bose headphones
personal ikea futon
adidas running shoes
nikon digital camera, D200
evan williams whiskey
Silk Soy Milk
Hagen Daz 1pint Chocolate
Magic Bullet Processor
Samsung fifteen inch TV
Personal Calendar made by Apple
120 roll of fuji film
99c bag of doritos ranch
Perry Ellis glasses case
10 capsule bottle of Tylenol


update:
The library of congress to digitally archive tweets:
http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/04/14/library.congress.twitter/index.html