Anything goes - Lyotard

With regard to Damien Hirst’s recent auction success, a quote from Jean-François Lyotard: Eclecticism is the degree zero of contemporary general culture: you listen to reggae; you watch a western; you eat McDonald’s at midday and local cuisine at night; you wear Paris perfume in Tokyo and dress retro in Hong Kong; knowledge is the stuff of TV game shows … Together, artist, gallery owner, critic, and public indulge one another in the Anything Goes — it is time to relax. But this realism of Anything Goes is the realism of money: in the absence of aesthetic criteria it is still possible to measure the value of works of art by the profits they realise.For a happier note click here

REFERENCE
Lyotard, Jean-François. 1992. The Postmodern Explained: Correspondence 1982-1985, trans. Don Barry, Bernadette Maher, Julian Pefanis, Virginia Spate and Morgan Thomas, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

Unearthed Performance.

Fierce Festival 2008 - Public Spaces

The Fierce Festival, an international arts festival, is once more giving you, the audience, the power to programme your own festival!

Impulse Response

An interactive performance installation based on an ecosystem involving live dance, video projection and electronic music, the audience is invited to move through and within the installation and see what changes they can trigger.

Step into a slightly spacey world, anything can happen, what just happened? Unearthed Performance.

www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/today/galleries/3159/3/

Winterzauber 2005 Videoart Installation Philipp Geist Zurich

http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=Hq6hqpXGv5k&feature=related

from thinkingaboutart.blogs.com/art/2006/07/index.html (19/07/06)

Arlington Arts Center Review - Part 3
Wrapping up the New Art Examined show at the Arlington Arts Center, below are six more images I’d like to discuss. I’ll have one more post about the “Black Factory” that I happened to see at the AAC on Saturday as well.

Daniel Busey’s (American U.) “King Me” is an interactive installation that caught my attention. When you approach the piece, you’re not quite sure what you’re in for. When I walked in front of the camera (as seen in the second image above), I found myself involved in the Rodney King beating. That wasn’t exactly what I was expecting. The question became, why am I here? Am I supposed to be a newscaster reporting on the event? If so, what should I say? Why am I reporting on it long after it occurred? On the other hand, am I “involved” in the beating? Do I have my back turned on police brutality? What am I supposed to do about it?

Though the piece has a bit of corniness to it – doesn’t it remind you of some tourist trap photo booth at a theme park – it does ask some interesting questions. My question to the artist: why use footage of an event from many years ago? Why not something current instead?

what the hell?

where is the button to post images?
technology fails when it is most needed.