Octavian Esanu | Born Soviet Republic of Moldavia
(USSR) in 1966
JFL:
What Does "Why" Mean? [PDF, 784k]
Hilarious and profound. This book has so many layers of meaning that you
can read it every day for the rest of your life. In 2001, while
residing at Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart, artist and curator
Octavian Esanu read hundreds of interviews and essays by artists and art
critics. He then formed a new text out of questions about art, that he
culled from his readings. Each question is duly footnoted. Originally
published in 2002 in Germany by Edition Solitude, JFL: What Does "Why"
Mean? is now available in North America, re-typeset and printed by
J&L.
[excerpt]
Foreword:
JS: Exactly what does that
mean? LR:
What do you mean? RS: I mean what's the meaning of that? PG:
[...] "what kind of meaning?"... JS: What does it mean
to you? RI: And what does it mean to me? NJ: You
know what
I mean? SL: What did she mean by that? YM: What it
means?
AZ: What does this mean? Q: What does that mean? HC:
What do they mean? LB: Some people will say "What do you
mean
by that? [...]" PC: [...] "Do you know what I mean?"
__________
JS: Jeanne Siegel,
"Multi-Media:
Painting, Sculpture, Sound" (panel with Lukin, Rauschenberg and
Rivers
on November 21, 1966), in Jeanne Siegel, Artwords: Discourse
on the
60's and 70's, (De Capo Press, 1992), p. 151, LR:
Larry Rivers, ibid., p. 165, RS: Robert Smithson, "Four
Conversations
between Dennis Wheeler and Robert Smithson," (1969-1970), Edited
and annotated by Eva Schmidt in Jack Flam, (ed.), Robert
Smithson,
The Collected Writings, (Berkeley and Los Angeles,
University of California
Press, 1996), p. 214, PG: Philip Guston see "Philip
Guston
Talking" (1978), in Kristine Stiles and Peter Selz, (eds.),
Theories
and Documents of Contemporary Art: a sourcebook of artists'
writings,
(Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California
Press, 1996),
p. 249, JS: Joan Simon, "Breaking the Silence: An
Interview
with Bruce Nauman" interview by Joan Simon, in Gabriele Detterer
(ed.), Art Recollection: Artists' Interviews and Statements
in
the Nineties, (Florence: Danilo Montanari & Exit &
Zona Archives
Editori, 1997), p. 180, RI: Robert Irwin, "Being and
Circumstance:
Notes Toward a Confidential Art" (1985), in Kristine Stiles and
Peter
Selz, (eds.), Theories and Documents of Contemporary Art: a
sourcebook
of artists' writings, (Berkeley, Los Angeles and London:
University
of California Press, 1996), p. 573, NJ: Neil Jenney,
"Earth"
(1969), (Symposium at White Museum, Cornell University) in Jack
Flam,
(ed.), Robert Smithson, The Collected Writings, (Berkeley
and Los
Angeles, University of California Press, 1996), p. 185, SL:
Susan
Lipper in Trip, see John Slyce "Reading Susan Lipper's
'Trip'" in Camera Austria, 72/2000, p. 44, YM: Yves
Michaud, "Joan Mitchell, Interview with Yves Michaud" (1986),
in Kristine Stiles and Peter Selz, (eds.), Theories and
Documents of
Contemporary Art: a sourcebook of artists' writings,
(Berkeley,
Los Angeles and London: University of California Press, 1996),
p. 33,
AZ: Andrei Zhdanov, "Speech to the Congress of Soviet
Writers,"
1934, in Charles Harrison & Paul Wood (eds.), Art in
Theory 1900-1990:
an anthology of changing ideas, (Oxford, Malden: Blackwell
Publishers
Ltd. 1992), p. 409, Q: Question in "An Introductory
Conversation,
Arthur C. Danto" see L&B volume 11, p. 54, HC:
Harry Cooper, "On †ber Jazz: Replaying Adorno with the Grain"
in OCTOBER no. 75, (Winter, 1996), p. 132, LB:
Louise Bourgeois,
"Louise Bourgeois Interview with Donald Kuspit" (1988) in
Kristine
Stiles and Peter Selz (eds.), Theories and Documents of
Contemporary
Art: a sourcebook of artists' writings, (Berkeley, Los
Angeles
and London: University of California Press, 1996), p. 41, PC:
Paul
Cobley, Semiotics for Beginners, by Paul Cobley,
illustrated by
Litza Jansz (Cambridge: Icon Books, 1997), p. 148.
1st edition
Octavian Esanu, JFL: What Does "Why" Mean? (Akademie Schloss Solitude,
2001)
2nd edition
Octavian Esanu, JFL: What Does "Why Mean? (Atlanta, J&L Books,
2005).
BIO
Octavian Esanu was born in the Soviet Republic of Moldavia (USSR) in
1966. He was trained in studio art and agitprop at the Ilya Repin School
of Art in Kishinev and in Interior Architecture at the State Institute
of Arts, Chisinau Moldova. He was the founding director of the Soros
Center for Contemporary Art, Chisinau. During the late 1990s and early
2000s he curated a series of contemporary art exhibitions in the
Netherlands and Germany. Recently he received his doctoral degree from
the Department of Art and Art History at Duke University.
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