“Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light and shadows. Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic. Authenticity is invaluable; originality is nonexistent. And don’t bother concealing your thievery—celebrate it if you feel like it. In any case, always remember what Jean-Luc Godard said: ‘It’s not where you take things from—it’s where you take them to.’”
Ubermorgen.com analyzes the contemporay discourse of torture
The austrian artist duo Ubermorgen, known for their 2005 project GWEI (Google will eat itself), are presenting their new solo exhibition Superenhanced. It deals with the aesthetic and linguistic implications of the actual renaissance of torture in western societies under the justification of the so called “war on terrorism”.
“ubermorgen.com gets to grips with this sinister subject matter, but rather than condemning a human rights outrage that is there for all to see, appears to be more interested, on one hand, in exploring the hypocrisies of the language that renders it acceptable, and on the other the moral position of the spectator when exposed to ambiguous questions and disturbing images. The point of departure is the Superenhanced Generator, a web project (displayed in installation form) that contains a smart interrogation engine, basically capable of comprehending the spectator’s responses, and that generates a fake legal document (a foriginal), modelled on rendition orders and interrogation protocols.”
Quote: Banksy on Advertising and Art
“The thing I hate most about advertising is that it atracts all the bright, creative and ambitious young people, leaving us mainly with the slow and self-obsessed to become our artists. Modern art is a disaster area. Never in the field of human history has so much been used by so many to say so little.”
Banksy – [via]
pompidou in paris
ich war für ein paar tage in paris und da durfte ein besuch im centre de georges pompidou natürlich nicht fehlen. die dada-ausstellung war der hammer, es ist beeindruckend zu sehen, was in der weimarer republik so alles los war und was für ästhetische fortschritte vorangetrieben wurden. so viel kreativität inspiriert.
amüsant fand ich dann, dass am ersten tag nach paris ich bei telepolis reinschaue und eine review der ausstellung (was ist kunst) und eine diskussion über den mit readymades verbundenen kunstbegriff geführt wurde. natürlich von florian rötzner, aber das hätte man sich ja auch denken können…