Radicant 143-175

Appropriation & Neoliberalism

" Displacement is a way of using the world, a way of surreptitiously eroding established geographies. Thus the ready made belongs to no particular domain. It exists between two zones and is anchored in none" pg 148 N. B.


" Viewed through the lens of the reciprocal readymade,every act of appropriation attests to a misuse of the world to a malentendu that has become the very nature of the economy." pg152

I think this is one of the most important aspects of this book. I think that placement/displacement is encoded into the art that we see today. We take a multitude of mediums and place them together to create things that may have already been constructed in the past, but reconstruct them now using different materials and placed in a different areas, only to give them new meaning by doing so.
We live in place now where displacement is part of our everyday life. Where what was at one time thought to be risky seems increasingly normal. This curvature of ideals and ratios may not be what was intended nor what was expected, but through the natural progression it is where we have arrived. But in no way does that mean this is where we shall stay.
At one point Duchamp, as seen below, thought that what he was doing as he painted was what his artistry was, but at a certain place there was a shift.... in thought perhaps, but it is questionable what really shifted.

His Mind? or His Ideals?






"How does an image become a sign?"

An image is already a sign, it is a visual sign that stands for something, anything, such as these works. They are signs for communicating what I'm thinking. Like the letter A. "A" is a image that becomes a sign a sign for using a sound. It is a symbol that represents three distinct sounds. it can be written many different ways, but in the American language it is always going to be the letter "a" and stand for three sounds.

An image is made up of many different shapes, cubist used these shapes in a very flat way to stand for images that had complex forms.

I believe we are so used to it now because it is what we live breathe and eat, we don't even consider the possibility of it not being a sign.

ANDY WARHOL


At any moment at anytime things could be shifting and they are. They may seem subtle at first but the overall shift that occurred is greater than any of us can imagine.

Pollock


Every move the man made while painting was unplanned, and yet he changed the way we lookt at the world, or at least he did for me
As did Philip Pearlstien




two painters that shifted my way of seeing the world, viewing art understanding light and brush control.... who is to say what is and isn't and image? a sign? a painting? and artist?
I know I'm not.... or am I?

David Hockeny Using Original "Paint Box" aka "Paint" on Computer

Ice Hotel

Radicant Aesthetics

Wandering & Precarious Forms
( all quotes are from Nicholas Bourriaud)
" precariousness is the sworn enemy of culture"

HOMELESS

"For them there is no such thing as a blank page, a pristine canvas, or material to be worked. Chaos is preexisting, and they operate from the midst of it."

"... clutter is such that the slightest gap in its uninterrupted chain- whether it be a disused urban area, barren expanse, or an impoverished are- immediately becomes photogenic, even fascinating"


Throughout these pages Nicholas continues to meander in and out of doorway, down hallways and into vacant space in the mind of art. This precarious behavior and willingness to drift further "down the rabbit hole" not only allowed me to better understand my art, but how it became my style of art. It allowed me to make connection that I had not seem before and reinforces, if only momentarily, thoughts I have had for quite a while.

The three journey types interested me as well

EXPEDITIONS AND PARADES : " How can one become the explorer of a world now covered by satellites, a world whose every millimeter is now registries and surveyed?"

This brought to mind Maya Lin's Waves. Isn't she in turn creating "un"surveyed land but using land to create her works of art? Or even Andy Goldsworthy, doesn't he do the same thing?

Maya Lin


Andy Goldsworthy


TOPOLOGY:
" A branch of geometry in which nothing is measured and no quantities compared."

This topic insighted my mind to wander along its own path of ideas while reading about it.
"Vast displays of heterogeneous elements- sometimes grouped by series, sometimes by affinities, and sometimes as in Hirschhorn's case , around the proper name of an author- with no perceptible structural organization."

Hirschhorn


I love this idea of finding the beauty in the subtle differences with in the conglomeration. It brings back to mind the Creolization idea.

TEMPORAL BIFURCATIONS:
"...shows how the memory of the people and events of the past haunt our lives an shape the space around us"

This I loved, and all I could think of is the immense amount of pictures that this idea of the "temporal bifurcation" brought to mind.

Tree Roots & Branches



Neuro-Transmitters



Bifurcating Rivers



Lighting



I LOVE IT !!!Radical or Radicant just keep growing!!!