nothing is not a thing it is not a space - it is a condition n whose presence we might begin to notice things - such as silence
On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 2:39 PM, William Conger <[email protected]>wrote: > In a painting there are no empty spaces. There all spaces are shapes, some > filled in; some maybe not; some easily evoking a specific referent, some > evoking > many or just a few ambiguously. Call 'nothing' anything you like but when > you > say nothing without qualifying it you are are referring to a state of > absolute > emptiness as in a vacuum...and I suppose even that is 'something', > wc > > > ----- Original Message ---- > From: armandobaeza <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Cc: armandobaeza <[email protected]> > Sent: Fri, August 17, 2012 1:19:47 PM > Subject: Re: is list dead? > > In the work of Cage, nothing means silence. In paintings like yours , > nothing > would be considered the empty spaces, though in both cases nothing would > be as meaning full as the sounds in Cage's work and the painted areas of > your > work. That is the nothing that I'm referring to( as in art work). > > AB > > On Aug 17, 2012, at 6:53 AM, William Conger wrote: > > > It's impossible to look at something and proclaim it looks like > "nothing". > > Anything at all will always look like something else to the human mind. > > > > wc > > > > > > ----- Original Message ---- > > From: joseph berg <[email protected]> > > To: [email protected] > > Sent: Fri, August 17, 2012 2:41:03 AM > > Subject: Re: is list dead? > > > > On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 5:22 AM, saulostrow <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> okay - this having been said - i'm curious if anyone here has any > insights > >> into the aesthetics of incompleteness and also that of of "nothing" (an > >> example of the latter being both the idea that what happens in a beckett > >> play is nothing , and nothing happens in Cage's 4'33") These > strategies(?) > >> seem applicable to all cultural production - music, poetry, film, > >> photography, etc. > >> > > > > (Recent article about art): > > > > - The television show "Seinfeld," as so famously proclaimed, was about > > "nothing," wherein lay its genius. Artist Andrew Rose says his new solo > > exhibit, "Kaleidoscope," is also about "nothing but art." > > > > http://www.staradvertiser.com/s?action=login&f=y&id=152196495 > > -- S a u l O s t r o w *Critical Voices* 21STREETPROJECTS 162 West 21 St NYC, NY 10011 [email protected]
