Re: <documenta X><blast> fields

Eve Andree Laramee (wander@earthlink.net)
Thu, 19 Jun 1997 09:24:42 -0500

Thu, 19 Jun 1997 09:24:22 Keller Ann Easterling wrote:
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>It is interesting to me that these conversations sometimes have
>utopic/distopic overtones.
> The distopic stance is cliche, but the
>utopian overtones are more subtley woven into the way we speak about art.
>It is a sort of oxymoronic concept, utopian art.

This configuration which mazes between the utopian and distopian perhaps
represents a place of "future" places, overlays of images, territory,
names, desires, actions. Perhaps no distance is covered but new terrain is
(un/dis)covered by (re)thinking. (Re)cognition. The mazing is a result of
the compromise between supposed linearity and of simultaneity. It is not a
duty given to artists, but a propensity, a burst of wandering among (or
falling through) cultivated ciphers.

>I think that the habit of mind which is prompted by computational tools
>has always been present, but has used different tools to model itself and
>different terms to express itself. Geological, mechanical,
>psychological,
>mathematical. I want to be allowed to use all of those terms in a culture
>with enough depth to recognize themany ways in which they
>are, not rarified and part of the discussions of intellectual elit, but
>present and even normal.

"And why shouldn't I invent some way, however fantastic and contrived, of
talking about something, without someone having to ask whether I'm
qualified to talk like that?" (Deleuze, Negotions)

>I agree with John Beckman about the
>sadness which surrounds this hard work on the "Chromed" object.

The matrix of the banal explodes into grand glittering minutiae.

Eve Andr=E9e Laram=E9e

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