>It seems too
> many artists today just do things 'cos they think >it's 'hip', 'passe'
> or
> 'kitsch' or whatever. No imagination whatsoever.
Dorian, I'd disagree - I don't think it's that lazy or the motivation
that simple. I don't neccesarily like much of it, but I can appreciate
where it's coming from - if you go down the 'call that art, I could do
that' line you end up back with the sort of attitudes modernism was
meant to break down (the sort of things that lead to broadsheet
newspapers still having a 'Music' section just classical, and the rest
is 'Pop'). . Just remembered one piece I do like - a Rachel Whitehead
one where she's suspended fragments of something exploding in a room -
when you're far enough that you can't see the wires, it looks exactly
like a freeze-frame photo of an explosion, but you can move round it -
kind of like a fine-art equivalent to that trick photography in The
Matrix.
Helen - not got the Broadcast LP (got it on order) but the gig last week
was wonderful - really good use of film projections with lots of 60s/70s
educational footage (atoms, bees, cells, space footage, etc). Take it
you have the United States of America LP? Have you checked the
soundtrack to Midnight Cowboy too - the Elephants Memory track is almost
identical to a Broadcast song.
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