Why even waste time going there , when we have so much to work from,
in our life time? I think the "last artist" on earth will be doing
cave murals
mando
On Oct 9, 2009, at 3:14 PM, Saul Ostrow wrote:
For the sake of argument let us say that art as a category of
objects, as
concept, or as an institutional form has met its demise . This end of
represents not art's termination, but the conclusion of its
historically
defined forms, media, and parameters. What emerges, in its stead is a
critically self-aware mode of production rooted in the
relationship between
its internal-"immaterial practices and external -"material
practices," which
are arrayed anamorphically, asymmetrically and analogously to one
another.
What emerges, is now critically self-aware mode of production whose
catagorical imperatives lie not in the materiality of its forms but
in its
ability to self-conscious model information, data, experience,
materiality and
knowledge to non-disciplinary ends.
So why not just admit that the art concept is always open? Why not
admit that the "family resemblance" is always an evolving one --
like nature, remoter genes are reduced to near zero, if not zero,
and newer ones seem all new -- or as with metamorphosis, a real
change occurs.
