Re: <documenta X><blast> composition

Jordan Crandall (xaf@interport.net)
Fri, 29 Aug 1997 12:46:14 -0400

jordan, could you elaborate on the following? It's hard to follow what
you are drawing from the poster, and it would be interesting to discuss
some of these issues. thanks.

jordan geiger wrote:

> In one of the shops along the Treppenstrasse (part of the documenta
> parcours in Kassel), a poster is displayed amongst other non-official
> souvenirs for the event: entitled "Kassel by Night", the poster consists
> of a black plane with a red X on it. The gag, a visual one-liner, is
> part of a global work-in-progress by an anonymous artists collective.
> It's the "(city name here)" by Night series of postcards and posters.
> It may be a sort of blurring of Brian's description. The documenta logo,
> itself enigmatic but certainly a critical act, is turned critically
> rightside up again. It is repositioned within its rightful system of
> capitalist, unified Germany. It's a cheap dumb product to some. It is
> also a potential imaginistic criticism of subjectivities latent in dx's
> own construction. It could be a part of the city's life, or a part of
> us, or vice versa. It awaits our position.
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