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 > > > > > --- from list avant-garde-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu --- --- from list avant-garde-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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