Comments on: KY belly http://dovetail.wordpress.com/2009/04/13/ky-belly/ Sun, 22 Nov 2009 04:17:36 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: MJS http://dovetail.wordpress.com/2009/04/13/ky-belly/#comment-91 MJS Tue, 14 Apr 2009 00:04:41 +0000 http://dovetail.wordpress.com/?p=565#comment-91 "Life, not art, has become so real that it's almost unreal." That part especially needs explanation and elaboration, but it sounds pleasantly similar to J.G. Ballard's idea that the world we live in is dominated by "sinister technologies." So it's no longer the artist's job to create an alternate, fictional world to this one (as in the traditions of modern fiction inherited from the nineteenth century), but to create reality itself out of all the media consumption masquerading as living/reality. “Life, not art, has become so real that it’s almost unreal.” That part especially needs explanation and elaboration, but it sounds pleasantly similar to J.G. Ballard’s idea that the world we live in is dominated by “sinister technologies.” So it’s no longer the artist’s job to create an alternate, fictional world to this one (as in the traditions of modern fiction inherited from the nineteenth century), but to create reality itself out of all the media consumption masquerading as living/reality.

]]> By: dovetail http://dovetail.wordpress.com/2009/04/13/ky-belly/#comment-90 dovetail Mon, 13 Apr 2009 16:38:53 +0000 http://dovetail.wordpress.com/?p=565#comment-90 My gut says that its not substantive. It feels like the tip he's feeling is the same as "art schools gone wild". When the professors are baby sitters that are tuned out so the kids take the opportunity to mess up the walls. Some of the 'kids' have a theory and illustrate it (Trecartin), others feel like the freedom is short-lived, like a quick streak thru the house before bathtime (Galliard and Chu Yun). I like the word (new for me) obfuscation. I don't think its playful though, I feel like the boomer is stripped bare, not sure what to grab hold of so instead of saying whats what, he calls it freedom. I didn't feel a sence of necessity coming thru anything I saw. But then I'm still a hair younger than Jesus too, but on the outside looking in. My gut says that its not substantive. It feels like the tip he’s feeling is the same as “art schools gone wild”. When the professors are baby sitters that are tuned out so the kids take the opportunity to mess up the walls. Some of the ‘kids’ have a theory and illustrate it (Trecartin), others feel like the freedom is short-lived, like a quick streak thru the house before bathtime (Galliard and Chu Yun).

I like the word (new for me) obfuscation. I don’t think its playful though, I feel like the boomer is stripped bare, not sure what to grab hold of so instead of saying whats what, he calls it freedom. I didn’t feel a sence of necessity coming thru anything I saw. But then I’m still a hair younger than Jesus too, but on the outside looking in.

]]> By: MJS http://dovetail.wordpress.com/2009/04/13/ky-belly/#comment-89 MJS Mon, 13 Apr 2009 05:00:43 +0000 http://dovetail.wordpress.com/?p=565#comment-89 Hi Josh, I thought this was the most provocative bit of the review: "'Younger Than Jesus' indicates that . . . life, not art, has become so real that it's almost unreal. Art is being reanimated by a sense of necessity, free of ideology or the compulsion to illustrate theory. Art is breaking free." What do you think this means? Is it substantive or just mystification—a willful, playful obfuscation? Hi Josh, I thought this was the most provocative bit of the review:

“‘Younger Than Jesus’ indicates that . . . life, not art, has become so real that it’s almost unreal. Art is being reanimated by a sense of necessity, free of ideology or the compulsion to illustrate theory. Art is breaking free.”

What do you think this means? Is it substantive or just mystification—a willful, playful obfuscation?

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