Date: Fri, 1 Mar 1996 17:51:34 -0500
From: ostrow-AT-is2.nyu.edu (Ostrow/Kaneda)
Subject: Re: Concept Marketing IV { contagion }


>On Thu, 29 Feb 1996, Ostrow/Kaneda wrote:
>
>> I see only words and when I attempt to interpert them I find only Mushy,
>> Mushy. The intention of the meaner is a bog, the act of understanding is
>> all that stands between myself and choas
>
>
>        Artists have become the administrators of the collapse of meaning:
>this is why it can no longer take place.

Meaning never took place. It is not a readymade sitting on a shelf. Artists
adminster nothing, they either affirm or propose sets of values, criteria
or standards. These are the things that collapse and witht  hem the ability
to construct  codes and derive meaning from them.
>
>        Just as artistic invention finds itself more and more trapped by
>the repetition of models and their contamination, the meaning is also
>already played out: it is imposed as a figure of transmission.
>
The spiraling course of 'return' and difference, chance and logic, is a
pattern Modernism repressed, by promoting practices of  rupture and linear
progress toward a definitive states, over moving about or surveying the
field of practice. The return of themes and practices  was therefore made
to appear to be insignificant events, equitable with entropy and decay.
With the displacement of Modernism, we  find in these patterns of
repetition and differentiation the means by which change is realized.

Saul Ostrow
Art Editor Bomb Magazine
Co-editor of the Journal Lusitania
General Editor for  "Critical Voices"




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