Yeah, I remember couching my questions for an interview with him with quotes from art magazines of the day - he had difficulty accepting any of their premises. Then he went out to the Mexican desert to reproduce his thumbprint with asphalt.
~Anthony Stephenson eTonys.com > > Message: 10 > Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2011 11:20:37 -0500 (EST) > From: Alan Sondheim <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [NetBehaviour] Dennis Oppenheim > To: NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity > <[email protected]> > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed > > > > Most of his work wasn't systems based, but allegorical on a > large > theatrical scale; there was an article decades ago by > Burnham talking > about the way Oppenheim's work couldn't be pigeonholed, > that it evaded > critique - which is one reason it wasn't discussed the way > Acconci or > Graham were - they were far more linear... Dennis was in my > Individuals > book with one of the richest texts / pieces around - Alan > > On Sun, 23 Jan 2011, Simon Biggs wrote: > > > A major influence on my work. A key artist, up there > with Smithson and > > Sonfist. These were systems based artists who were > able to transcend the > > reductive logic so many felt compelled to indulge when > captivated by systems > > thought. They each offer important lessons for artists > working with digital > > media, even though they never worked with it. > > > > Best > > > > Simon > > > > > > On 23/01/2011 00:24, "Alan Sondheim" <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > >> > >> > >> Dennis Oppenheim just died; he was one of the most > amazing artists I've ever > >> known... A really sad day - > >> > >> - Alan > >> > >> > >> == > >> email archive: http://sondheim.rupamsunyata.org/ > >> webpage http://www.alansondheim.org > >> music archive: http://www.espdisk.com/alansondheim/ > >> current text http://www.alansondheim.org/qw.txt > >> == > >> _______________________________________________ > >> NetBehaviour mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > >> > > > > > > Simon Biggs > > [email protected] > > http://www.littlepig.org.uk/ > > > > [email protected] > > http://www.elmcip.net/ > > http://www.eca.ac.uk/circle/ > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > NetBehaviour mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > > > > > > > == > email archive: http://sondheim.rupamsunyata.org/ > webpage http://www.alansondheim.org > music archive: http://www.espdisk.com/alansondheim/ > current text http://www.alansondheim.org/qw.txt > == > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > > End of NetBehaviour Digest, Vol 812, Issue 1 > ******************************************** > _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
