File spoon-archives/avant-garde.archive/avant-garde_2002/avant-garde.0208, message 29


Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2002 15:00:27 -0500
From: Bill Spornitz <spornitz-AT-mts.net>
Subject: Re: MARRIAGE VOW(EL)S IN DRAG - Part one of a new list from Heart



Very slight bump at bottom corner and a little light external soiling 
but otherwise a very good example of this very scarce publication.


>Hi Heiko,
>
>the strange thing with Kassel is that it is still
>a afirmation of the noncontinental aesthical view
>on art despite the fact that Enwezor tries to
>deconstruct global tendencies. That is very
>strange especialy concerning the typical
>modernistic (unversalized and homogenic)
>asumption on which his program is based on. The
>proliferation of video is mainly around the
>notion of visability and the concept of
>presenting the world through a "coerced vision"
>as Hans Blumenberg called it in his (excellent)
>essay "Light as a metaphor of truth". Later
>Martin Heidegger and Michel Foucault and even
>Jacques Derrida woul emphasize the dominance of
>the "violence of light" in which there is
>presumed that what can be brougth to vision is
>'true'. The mainly (pseudo0documentary works on
>the Documenta only confirm this longlasting
>constructed similarity betwen vision and thought.
>There is no single work that deconstructs the
>power or the visual retorics...Very peculiar but
>mainly due to Enwezor 'raising' in the Anglo-
>American sphere of aesthetics..So the 'attack' on
>globalization by a aesthetic that shows enormous
>similarities (by it's ontology and modernistic
>'roots') with the same programmatic thinking that
>creates the discourse of global culture and
>economy...There is still a lot more to say about
>this subject but at this moment I don't have the
>time for it but it will be worked out one of
>these days by me in an essay...What worries me
>the most is that most 'exotic' artist are only
>these ones that can be fit in the modernistic
>cultural paradigm....
>
>See you,
>
>Raoul Teulings
>
>
>
>
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