Replying to LO24282 --
Andrew,
What a riot! You really had me going there for a second, til I read the
donkey droppings bit. The artists' approach reminds me of three things:
1) the Zen whip technique
2) the notion of constructionism
3) Edward Hall's musings on language and its relation to the change
process:
phoneme =series of interactions =set = parts
morpheme = behavior clusters = isolate = details of parts
syntax = group behaviors = pattern = whole
Sajeela
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On Fri, 31 Mar 2000 16:10:55 EST ACampnona@aol.com writes:
> Dear At,
>
> The writing of Bill Viola, the American artist was from a group show
> in
> Chicago in, I think 1996. I will do some research into his other
> writings
> if you think that would be interesting?
>
> In the same catalogue is this from another great American artist,
> Barnett
> Newman, " When I was a kid studying French, I studied with a man who
> used
> to teach us by saying, Moi, je suis le sujet, I'm the subject; vous,
> vous
> etes l'objet, you are the subject; et voici le verbe. And he'd give
> you a
> slap on the face. The empty canvas then is a grammatical object- a
> predicate. I am the subject who paints it. The process of painting
> is the
> verb...the finished painting is the entire sentence, and that's what
> I am
> involved in...I'm the subject, I'm also the verb as I paint, but I'm
> also
> the object. I am the complete sentence." (1963)
>
> Perhaps from this beautifully lucid statement some people can begin
> to see
> how artists experience live(ness) and express it with an autonomy
> that is
> both spare and rare?
>
> You know ;-) I am studying oriental ideograms (calligraphic symbols)
> and
> contemporary American epistemological philosophy at the moment ; and
> conjoining this together with Winfried's understandings of corporate
> strategy and the interval-spatiality of triumvirate donkey droppings
> is
> bound to result in some fruitful postings soon. I may even enter
> myself
> for the Turner Prize!
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Andrew
>
> [Host's Note: Wondering what is the "Turner Prize"? ..Rick]
> --
>
> ACampnona@aol.com
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