10 de septiembre de 2014
"The aura of artworks has shifted towards their public"- p.58, Relational Aesthetics, Nicolas Bourriaud.
When I read about Minimalism, and how it was perceived by the art critics of the time, specially Clement Greenberg and Michael Fried, their ideas still resonate within me.
Bourriaud reading on Minimalism, is beautiful, as it explains the transferal of meaning from the work of art, to the body of the beholder. You might relate this to phenomenology, and one of the reasons why I found Minimalism so appealing, since although it was classified as self-referential, I found it to be a big claimant of its own materiality. Bourriaud goes further by explaining that the work by Gonzalez-Torres, achieved this activation of a space of inter-referentiality(p.59, Relational Aesthetics). He proposes an analysis of the behavior of the beholder given a certain situation. This doesn't place the subject as a symbolic player in relation to the piece, rather, it opens a reflective space for the viewer, where actions and their inter-relationships(p.59, Relational Aesthetics), become cues to read the world. All of this I find beautiful.
I have always believed this to be the aim of art, whatever that art stands for. To alter, or to provide with additional ways of reading the world. An opening up.
Minimalism made you closer to the very surface of the encountered object, and by doing so made you wonder as where did the marks come from, or the absence of these. It is in its very flatness, or lack of content, that the work expressed its very extrinsic qualities, those of drawing, phenomenologically, their relationships that lay outside of the work of art (the museum gallery, the invigilators, the lighting, or even the origin or mine where the rock came from...) If the convivial celebration of the disappearance of the work of art was that of Klein's blue history, it was Minimalism's task to fill the void with the world, with a whole new set of relationships, those which had waited to be touched by the vanishing hand of art...or rather artists.
I used to be a big apple fan. Like a fervent one.
The other day I read an article about the aureatic power of brands. I was wondering where had Apple's gone?
They've gone from visionary; this is simple, attractive, unobtrusive, to Silly, annoying, obtrusive. I am sure I represent the views of many other customers. I find my iphone demanding.
I know its not such a big deal, its a brand. But to me it was a kind of special project. And now its lost its aureatic power. The people working at apple made a murder in the move from ios6 to ios7. All the subtleties of the apps went flat, to a rather nauseating choreography of applications.
My feeling is that they think they should follow their past recipe of success, for they have not truly innovated any more. I don't find their stories compelling. I just find them Silly. Their new motto is Bigger than Bigger. Really?
7 de septiembre de 2014
Can I say...I am fucked. Not because I believe in musci, but becuase I believe in Love. All that there is is there for you, at a hands grabbabababababaa-bba. And afterall is all true. You should have followed up...up the mountain. Yes! Your instinc was right, but you decided to go trough the well worn path. Oh! afraid of being left behind, of not being pure anymore. Or corropting your own morals. You left all that enter your consciousness, ready to relinquish all they you felt for. Oh dear, your are in a deep hole. The Hole of Despair, I must say. Other will be fighting on a side hill, or a land hill, or a landfill. Yes they might come and knock your ddoor, I know, contracts are evil. SSIGN THEM. Or better not.
All this have you been thinking, and thinking aftell all is of a new kind, for your own very own misery. Buy it, trade it, share it. And after all is human misery we all encounter since we follow extraneous dogma. I bet. I ask you for that boy. To be able to buy it, or to follow it, you have to swallow it firt. GRABB IIIT FIRST, AND PULL IT DOWN, all in. As its was meant. There is truth in critical mass, or purely in sheer mass. Abstaining is a form of punishment, or better of FEAR.Pay fare, its out of your pocket. Out of your own suppressed labor, since you have given away your very own innercity, or better your world. Tings make more sense mememehoi, never move to my hood, since danger is callling outta way...
Meme---emeh!
Also on a final note. Change is not for good or bad, it is a moment of chance, Pupupupre chance to the better, or to hope, to the delusion to a better do-do, or a better cognitive state. Puff, bullshit. I am sorry again. Touch. I also wanted to say that please stop that men! stop that men (nicki nack, I believe). There is people who is brave enough to follow their balls. Dickheads might be what the world wants, sonce they are more visceral than Machiavellian...Oh-HO! Please stoop that men! stop that men! stop that men...
Pleeease.
I hope you understand that this is writing at ist purest, no taking into account wHArt meadiates mi message/te compu/ and all thos things like coded language, backgorund, and since, since, since you have been waiting. Oh oh love, I am hoping to return to reality. To a Reality of my Own,
With no FURRther dealy. All the very best,
Nicolas Marchiaro.
xxxxoxoxoxoxo
All this have you been thinking, and thinking aftell all is of a new kind, for your own very own misery. Buy it, trade it, share it. And after all is human misery we all encounter since we follow extraneous dogma. I bet. I ask you for that boy. To be able to buy it, or to follow it, you have to swallow it firt. GRABB IIIT FIRST, AND PULL IT DOWN, all in. As its was meant. There is truth in critical mass, or purely in sheer mass. Abstaining is a form of punishment, or better of FEAR.Pay fare, its out of your pocket. Out of your own suppressed labor, since you have given away your very own innercity, or better your world. Tings make more sense mememehoi, never move to my hood, since danger is callling outta way...
Meme---emeh!
Also on a final note. Change is not for good or bad, it is a moment of chance, Pupupupre chance to the better, or to hope, to the delusion to a better do-do, or a better cognitive state. Puff, bullshit. I am sorry again. Touch. I also wanted to say that please stop that men! stop that men (nicki nack, I believe). There is people who is brave enough to follow their balls. Dickheads might be what the world wants, sonce they are more visceral than Machiavellian...Oh-HO! Please stoop that men! stop that men! stop that men...
Pleeease.
I hope you understand that this is writing at ist purest, no taking into account wHArt meadiates mi message/te compu/ and all thos things like coded language, backgorund, and since, since, since you have been waiting. Oh oh love, I am hoping to return to reality. To a Reality of my Own,
With no FURRther dealy. All the very best,
Nicolas Marchiaro.
xxxxoxoxoxoxo
6 de septiembre de 2014
I'd rather say theres a lack of political engagement in our current society, meaning western developed countries, than people need to be more engaged in politics in, say, the UK.
We can teach content to our fellow colleagues, but they will come back hungry. Instead we need to share a will to learn, rather than being educated. This production of autonomous/inter-dependent agencies need to happen, somehow, so people can position or (dis)locate themselves.
We might acknowledge the existence of a capitalist society, of a consumerist society, of a socialist society...But we can't deny the interdependency of things, i.e. welfare estate liaising with the rise of capitalism, socialism with a political agenda, etc.
Rather if we wish to challenge the status quo, and not because we automatically do, or because we want to personify the so-appraised avant-garde, but because our thinking, and not of less importance, our feelings, tell us that something is wrong, i.e. a miserable face in between a glory of wealth.
If, yes, we are to acknowledge that we can live in society, we might want to strive for equality, or at least for opportunity, and not only the chance to success, but the chance to diversity of choice as well.
Philosophers think because the heart told them to do so, not because they wanted to prove reality.
"Imagination is more important than knowledge"(Albert Einstein) and for so we have come to think of the limits of our own reason, leaving room for a world of perception. Leave them alone since all they have been searching is for a world full of love.
With no more delay,
oxoxoxox, hoping that the will of your hand has a say, has a space of its own in a world of [fabricated] misery.
28 de agosto de 2014
Today I was thinking on the power of the tools...
You know hoe they say you better give fish away than fishing nets...
And also I have been thinking as to why I am so annoyed by capitalism, when so many corporations have been so large and successful, it makes me think there must be something good about them, or perhaps very intelligent at least.
I have been thinking about the relationship between capital and ignorance, and how much of its collection/accumulation is based on a relationship of knowledge/ignorance, where the capitalist capitalise on its customers ignorance, and how its played about in problem solving.
Ikea.
The compound of these sticks or ideas: problem solving, knowledge and success has lead me to rethink the good in contemporary paradigms of success, and how design has played a role in this achievement. Obviously I have not been thinking about this because I care or because I have so much spare time that I like to think of the unthinkable, but because nowadays and probably trough history, there's always a struggle between who is dominated and who dominates. Still I wouldn't like to produce a unilateral tale, but I would like to talk about the idea the domination occurs throughout our daily life, in different situations, with different implications/consequences. For so lets not talk about the idea of becoming a dominatrix nor a submissive, but at identifying and possibly playing with these different roles. Now you might think: what a detour! But really, my point is that there are design strategies to produce change within these dynamics, albeit not simple ones.
Why is there Ikea so successful when it produces such a huge mobilization of resources in the middle of a huge environmental crisis? Or why is the World Bank such a powerful institution when it has produced so much harm? (obviously I can argue these two here, find your own literature)
Well the truth is that they provide solutions to problems. And I can't be here hypercritical since I can't actually explain to you what is a solution or what is a problem, or whether we should care about these two concepts, which I know is problematic, but hey, I am sorry, I need to simplify. So my point is that they allow for life processes to continue, thus they eliminate a barrier whether this is physical or physiological or a combination of the two.
Oblivious to this problematic too, I want to claim the value of expertise in the democratic/democratization of society, for it eradicates ignorance. I am not claiming that knowledge is the panacea (hell no), but it expands our knowledge. Tools that provide knowledge in our contemporary society are varied and super, highly traded, like books, magazines, pamphlets, computers, etc. List is long, but they have the power to distribute ideas but not actions, they are a bit like a brain without a body, and they easily buy into the Kantian combo (mind body separation). For so we need something more substantial, we need a tool or better, a net. This is not only the creation of objects out of the accumulation of knowledge, but the compounded value of added objects, agencies, territories, subjectivities and synergies. I like for so the power of the map, as they make reality understandable (not comprehensible) and by their very nature they tell so much about aesthetics as they do about politics. But still they remain provocations and by no means they necessarily can be called democratic, which for me is synonym of equality.
The achievement of a more democratic society mean we cannot ditch capitalism as we cannot ditch inequality, since we can't, but we have to strive for change, for life is not about life or death but about the changes of substance from one state to another, hence becoming something else. It is democracy in relation with capitalism that quite successfully allows the play of these forces, but please, by no means we can affirm there is no misery, as there is plenty, and not only there is, but we are entangled in it production/reproduction most likely without being aware. It is also worthy to note that I am speaking from a position of privilege, as I am a man, white, middle-class fully recognized citizen, but I have had the luck of turning out to be gay, which has given me a different point of view on things, different from the straight gaze, which by no means is exclusively been informed by my sexuality, but it has been a defining factor (please lets no simplify or move into the realm of labels for they do no good in the endeavor of elucidating).
Moreover if we aspire to equality we need to be able to map our condition, to learn about difference an put it into play. This act will make us aware and it will also allow us put at our disposition a set of tools, i.e. mapping seasons would allow us to grow the food we wanted on the suitable periods, so the map to an extent enables the instrumentalization of reality to produce a certain set of predicted, desired results. The mapping of realities and the identification of situations allows us to identify what is that we want to act upon, for which we need an action plan or better put; a manual.
Manuals can be of great value if they posses a diagnostic value, this is, they present you with the information in relation to your problem and they present you with a series of solution which can be applied. Once this identification is done, this handled expertise can be implemented. Think of Ikea. They let you flick trough their entire catalog (I need storage) and they let you choose by providing range (you feel empowered by choice, since you can evaluate and choose, have the power to select). After that, in exchange of currency, they send you the goods (the cheapest available), which are no fancy, but they follow the (darkest) highest modernist claim, form follows function. When the goods arrive you can put them together by following a manual, which empowers you to build, with the tools provided (you are the own creator and perpetrator of your own prefabricated reality). This might sound very much like despotism, but it is as close is it gets to the idea of availability trough (un)free-market logics/logistics (low price, high volume of production, availability, accessibility). It is this depletion of the individualization of resources that achieve this miracle of affordability, by the depreciation of labor and the creation of clear cut parts that can be assembled by the very consumers of the neighborhood. I know it sounds depressing, but I wanted to exalt the manual rather than decimate it.
The manual is a tool that allows for the performance of knowledge, or transferred expertise in the set-by-step illustration of concepts/ideas. It is a democratization of knowledge-action, in which tools as well as processes lay naked for the hand in need. It also provide a false illusion of autonomy, which explodes the object into parts and reveals it intimate engineered parts (structural porn).
Yo might think that this makes no sense, or that its out of touch with reality, but I believe that the manual has the potential to generate equality, awareness and diagnosis. Whether the ill needs to be cured, is a question that I dare not to ask.
xoxox
You know hoe they say you better give fish away than fishing nets...
And also I have been thinking as to why I am so annoyed by capitalism, when so many corporations have been so large and successful, it makes me think there must be something good about them, or perhaps very intelligent at least.
I have been thinking about the relationship between capital and ignorance, and how much of its collection/accumulation is based on a relationship of knowledge/ignorance, where the capitalist capitalise on its customers ignorance, and how its played about in problem solving.
Ikea.
The compound of these sticks or ideas: problem solving, knowledge and success has lead me to rethink the good in contemporary paradigms of success, and how design has played a role in this achievement. Obviously I have not been thinking about this because I care or because I have so much spare time that I like to think of the unthinkable, but because nowadays and probably trough history, there's always a struggle between who is dominated and who dominates. Still I wouldn't like to produce a unilateral tale, but I would like to talk about the idea the domination occurs throughout our daily life, in different situations, with different implications/consequences. For so lets not talk about the idea of becoming a dominatrix nor a submissive, but at identifying and possibly playing with these different roles. Now you might think: what a detour! But really, my point is that there are design strategies to produce change within these dynamics, albeit not simple ones.
Why is there Ikea so successful when it produces such a huge mobilization of resources in the middle of a huge environmental crisis? Or why is the World Bank such a powerful institution when it has produced so much harm? (obviously I can argue these two here, find your own literature)
Well the truth is that they provide solutions to problems. And I can't be here hypercritical since I can't actually explain to you what is a solution or what is a problem, or whether we should care about these two concepts, which I know is problematic, but hey, I am sorry, I need to simplify. So my point is that they allow for life processes to continue, thus they eliminate a barrier whether this is physical or physiological or a combination of the two.
Oblivious to this problematic too, I want to claim the value of expertise in the democratic/democratization of society, for it eradicates ignorance. I am not claiming that knowledge is the panacea (hell no), but it expands our knowledge. Tools that provide knowledge in our contemporary society are varied and super, highly traded, like books, magazines, pamphlets, computers, etc. List is long, but they have the power to distribute ideas but not actions, they are a bit like a brain without a body, and they easily buy into the Kantian combo (mind body separation). For so we need something more substantial, we need a tool or better, a net. This is not only the creation of objects out of the accumulation of knowledge, but the compounded value of added objects, agencies, territories, subjectivities and synergies. I like for so the power of the map, as they make reality understandable (not comprehensible) and by their very nature they tell so much about aesthetics as they do about politics. But still they remain provocations and by no means they necessarily can be called democratic, which for me is synonym of equality.
The achievement of a more democratic society mean we cannot ditch capitalism as we cannot ditch inequality, since we can't, but we have to strive for change, for life is not about life or death but about the changes of substance from one state to another, hence becoming something else. It is democracy in relation with capitalism that quite successfully allows the play of these forces, but please, by no means we can affirm there is no misery, as there is plenty, and not only there is, but we are entangled in it production/reproduction most likely without being aware. It is also worthy to note that I am speaking from a position of privilege, as I am a man, white, middle-class fully recognized citizen, but I have had the luck of turning out to be gay, which has given me a different point of view on things, different from the straight gaze, which by no means is exclusively been informed by my sexuality, but it has been a defining factor (please lets no simplify or move into the realm of labels for they do no good in the endeavor of elucidating).
Moreover if we aspire to equality we need to be able to map our condition, to learn about difference an put it into play. This act will make us aware and it will also allow us put at our disposition a set of tools, i.e. mapping seasons would allow us to grow the food we wanted on the suitable periods, so the map to an extent enables the instrumentalization of reality to produce a certain set of predicted, desired results. The mapping of realities and the identification of situations allows us to identify what is that we want to act upon, for which we need an action plan or better put; a manual.
Manuals can be of great value if they posses a diagnostic value, this is, they present you with the information in relation to your problem and they present you with a series of solution which can be applied. Once this identification is done, this handled expertise can be implemented. Think of Ikea. They let you flick trough their entire catalog (I need storage) and they let you choose by providing range (you feel empowered by choice, since you can evaluate and choose, have the power to select). After that, in exchange of currency, they send you the goods (the cheapest available), which are no fancy, but they follow the (darkest) highest modernist claim, form follows function. When the goods arrive you can put them together by following a manual, which empowers you to build, with the tools provided (you are the own creator and perpetrator of your own prefabricated reality). This might sound very much like despotism, but it is as close is it gets to the idea of availability trough (un)free-market logics/logistics (low price, high volume of production, availability, accessibility). It is this depletion of the individualization of resources that achieve this miracle of affordability, by the depreciation of labor and the creation of clear cut parts that can be assembled by the very consumers of the neighborhood. I know it sounds depressing, but I wanted to exalt the manual rather than decimate it.
The manual is a tool that allows for the performance of knowledge, or transferred expertise in the set-by-step illustration of concepts/ideas. It is a democratization of knowledge-action, in which tools as well as processes lay naked for the hand in need. It also provide a false illusion of autonomy, which explodes the object into parts and reveals it intimate engineered parts (structural porn).
Yo might think that this makes no sense, or that its out of touch with reality, but I believe that the manual has the potential to generate equality, awareness and diagnosis. Whether the ill needs to be cured, is a question that I dare not to ask.
xoxox