dan s wang on 16 Dec 2000 20:51:32 -0000 |
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[Nettime-bold] Re: <nettime> This artwork degrades women. |
> On nettime, all over the world, Simon Penny presented his email 'This > artwork degrades women', in which a work of art by Alexander Brandt > lying face down is projected (life size) into a crumpled heap in the > waste basket. The only way to interact with this email is to stomp on > the work of art, and the only reward is that you can feel smug and > self-satisfied about having made a judgement about something you have > not seen. If you read it a lot, Alexander Brandt himself fades away. The > work of art never objects or defends itself, but neither does it request > this treatment. Brandt "fades away?" By ignoring the fact of the artist's institutionally valorized statement (ie an installation presented in a prestigious venue for the occasion of an international conference), this rhetoric signals the predictable, inevitable, indeed overdetermined reasoning of a so-called free speech partisan. > consciousness-raising? Is it not an excellent case study of the > potentiality of electonic representations to encourage or reinforce > prejudice and/or censorship of artistic expression in the real world? There it is, the spectre of censorship trotted out as promised and as required. Here's the next step for you Mr. Myers: label Penny a "fascist." We all know how this goes. > is it OK to stomp on the faces of artists who presumably are ideally > suited lying naked, prone and passive on a rag on the cold floor, just > crying out for Professors of Art Design and Media to stomp on them? Hm, does the earnestness of the critique embarrass you that much? As a student I hung out with Simon Penny for an afternoon once. I can assure you he can be every bit as cool, detached, and ironic in person as any other artist doing the contemporary thing--judging by your e-mail, that's what counts. For the rest of us, cool or not, its the principled and rigorously considered stance that we welcome. > > Note 1. > pinyin has about as much to do with this email as it did with the one of > which this is a parody. if you don't know what it is, you can look it up > on the internet, if that kind of thing bothers you. If you don't consider this bothersome, well, you should: you ren xiang fa tai yi ban. . . Dan S. Wang _______________________________________________ Nettime-bold mailing list Nettime-bold@nettime.org http://www.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-bold