I am involved in a work that fulfills some of the terms set out. I was
actually amazed to see it written out so clearly as I have only really
thought it and never as specified as this.
I am painting six logs 1000 times each in an off white color. This is to
emphisize the process as a ritual of the art making process. I compare it to
the masters who would spend a year or more working on a painting. I will, in
effect, spend about a year.
This is all of the ritual of art with nothing else. No context, no content,
no relation, no line, shape and form- no nothin'. Nothin' but process. This
should allow me to more clearly focus on the ritual of making art.
The final product will certainly not be a unique object, as it will appear
to be six painted logs. And it eschews my role as artist as anyone can do
it. It,also, has a duration, although the duration isn't a set time it is a
set number, 1000.
My whole exhibit next month is
installation/performance/environment/experiencee that has as it's core theme
ritual and sacrifice. I will have about seven works there. If any one is
going to be in Santa Clarita (by Magic Mountain) you are more then welcome
to come on Sat. Oct. 14th.
Disco
>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> A rejection of the notion that art is first and foremost a process
> of production that creates a unique object.
>
> A stress on the non-hierarchical nature of the world outside of
> human impositions.
>
> Eschewing the role of the artist as special and as the
> principal focus of the work and/or its appreciation.
>
> An emphasis on the primary significance of process, change and
> duration in the creation and presentation of works.
>
> and
>
> Discarding the significance of boundaries between types of
> works through the use of new media, intermedia and even
> non-media.
>
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