File spoon-archives/avant-garde.archive/avant-garde_2002/avant-garde.0208, message 26


Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2002 14:23:43 +0200 (CEST)
From: Heiko Recktenwald <uzs106-AT-ibm.rhrz.uni-bonn.de>
Subject: Re: MARRIAGE VOW(EL)S IN DRAG - Part one of a new list from Heart 


On Sun, 25 Aug 2002, Alastair Dickson wrote:

> product to be astutely pitched at its field. As these catalogues and
> monographs are retrieved from cupboards and files and thrown back into a
> rarity market, do they address and define the understanding of what is
> avant-garde?

It was an interesting list of what once was avant-garde, history now, I
hope. History is important but not everything. How boring is Cage today,
for example. This shows (for me) that not even the questions, what we can
learn from history, stay valid over times. Zen is bullshit sotosay now.
Questions of globalisation today, I dont know what. There is Dokumenta
now in Kassel, that tries to ask, maybe there are strong things like the
stuff that was there by Richard Hamilton the last time, I will not go.
Regionalism and globalism, african artists doing african art that looks,
how does it look like ? Is it african when it looks like Cage ?

I hate Attac but I dont know any better answer.


H.



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