On 24/04/16 01:49 PM, Pall Thayer wrote: > It just occurred to me that this artwork has already been suggested by > Kurt Vonnegut in Rabo Karabekian's "Windsor Blue Number Seventeen". > > On Sun, Apr 24, 2016 at 2:18 PM Pall Thayer <pallt...@gmail.com > <mailto:pallt...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > Based on my understanding of Accelerationism, I would think that the > ideal "Accelerationist" artwork would be work that you get typical > art-investors to pay a shit-load of money for but that is inherently > ephemeral so that no portion of the original "investment" can ever > grow or even be recouped.
The art market recuperates the ephemeral (and even the actively hostile) and turns doing so into a mechanism of exclusivity. Whether it's carefully recovered documentation and certificates, or restricted access to remote locations and fleeting events, exclusivity is a source of value in the art market. So trying to not create, or to actively destroy, value in the art market is a good way of creating value in the art market. This is a challenge for epistemic accelerationists seeking to exit the contemporary artworld... An ideal Accelerationist artwork would have been the Guerilla Girls' proposal for a gallery to make its finances public as "the work" (the gallery declined). It would have been a critical exposure of knowledge about the art world, enabling us to understand more about it, and was entirely indigestible by it, making it something other than Contemporary Art. _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
