2005.07.12 11:05
srebrenica 1995
Yeah, there was overall denial of the 1945-46 mass graves at Gakowo too. Not anymore though.
I have several relatives killed and buried there, including a great-grand mother. A few years ago, one of my first cousins (of my mother's generation) told me how her sister K. and a group of other teenaged girls then had to dig the graves, and then how the girls were shot and the first dead in the graves. It was only luck that a Serbian "boy" recognized K. and knew that K.'s father was always friendly and did good business with the Serbs, and how the young man then asked that K. be taken out of the line-up.
I enjoy visiting K. and her older sister ever summer, when it's time to pick the apples and pears from the trees in their yard
2005.07.12 17:39
Re: 302_MOVED_TEMPORARILY horticultural unit by Darko Fritz
What artists in 1970s exhausted all shifters and indexical signs? (Hopefully the answer will be exhaustive as well.)
2005.07.13 13:10
Re: 302_MOVED_TEMPORARILY horticultural unit by Darko Fritz
Well, I certainly no longer have to imagine an answer that says nothing.
Anand answered:
Imagine a photograph of nothing. Would it be a representation of empty space, pure light, total blackness, a blank surface, or an image of the word "nothing"? A photograph has to be a photograph of something, or evidence of the chemical processes of photography itself. This necessity of the photographic sign to carry the referent within itself is what Charles Sanders Pierce, American Pragmatist and founder of the American school of semiotics, labeled the index. Produced by a physical, contiguous connection between sign and referent, the indexical sign "would lose the character that makes it a sign if its object were removed." This is true of nonphotographic signs such as the residue of human contact: a thumbprint pressed into plaster or a cast shadow.
guggenheimcollection.org/site/concept_Index.html
quick definition:
cyberartsweb.org/cpace/ht/wenz/space2.html
also see: The Originality of the Avant-Garde and Other Modernist Myths
by Rosalind Krauss
The MIT Press; Reprint edition (July 9, 1986)
ISBN: 0262610469
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All last night I dreamt I was a muffler, and I woke up exhausted.
Imagine a picture of an exhaust pipe.
"This is an exhaust pipe."
museumpeace.com/guess/whatsphinxinhere.jpg
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continuing from:
guggenheimcollection.org/site/concept_Index.html
As Rosalind Krauss has argued, the indexical became a primary characteristic of contemporary art in the 1970s, when the status of the photographic sign as the only evidence of "what has been" moved to center stage with the introduction of Performance art, Body art, and Environmental art. In the 1980s, the phenomenological terrain of the index was leveled an important aesthetic and philosophical blow with the introduction of Cindy Sherman's Untitled Film Stills (1977–80). While the body of Sherman the artist is always present in these photographs, there is a "she" that is also present who alludes to, while never being a precise index of, cinematic memory, gesture, and actual mise-en-scène [but still a reenactment, nonetheless]. With the subsequent introduction of digital photography into contemporary art, as in Andreas Gursky's photographic tableaux made from digitally implanted "real" imagery, the nature and definition of the index is further complicated. In other words, is the term "index" even correct when the referent itself has shifted from something "that has been" to something "that has never been"? Matthew Barney's more narratively intricate CREMASTER films, sculptures, and photographs rely on the notion of an indexical trace that produces an entirely believable world of referents that have "never been." In fact, Barney's film cycle may itself be considered an index of the larger shift in 21st-century notions of presence and absence that has brought us up to the point where it is no longer necessary for an object to "have been there" physically to be a source of indexicality.
2005.07.13 15:22
to all you doubters: god's existence proven!!!
Ach du Lieber Gott im Himmel!
Ja ja,
watchy da Dutchy TV's
aufderhaltungs-programmengefahrtzen-speilzeitgeist-gestellungsnetz!
2005.07.13 16:56
Re: 302_MOVED_TEMPORARILY horticultural unit by Darko Fritz
Foucault said:
A day will come when, by means of similitude relayed indefinitely along the length of a series, the image itself, along with the name it bears, will lose its identity. Campbell, Campbell, Campbell.
If only Foucault thought about reenactment, then maybe he wouldn't make statements that ultimately lose their identity.
And Tafuri tried to say the same thing about Piranesi's Ichnographia Campi Martii, and he was entirely wrong too.
Lauf says:
The day is here when, by means of scholarly similitude relayed indefinitely along the length of a series of semesters, the "scholars" themselves, along with the academic degrees they desperately cling to, have lost all their worth. Saussure, Foucault, Tafuri, platitudium infinatum.
So again, What artists in the 1970s exhausted all shifters and indexical signs?
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2005.07.13 20:11
The Semiology of God
Yes, golden arches were a major sign of the triumph of God in the early Christian Church architecture of Helena and Eutropia. And yes, we all know how golden arches inverted back to signs of pagan gods.
2005.07.14 The Bible Study series by John the Baptist Piranesi and Otto King of Bavaria
2005.07.14 09:22
Live 8
I watched some of LIVE AID last night on WHYY, the local PBS station. Yesterday was the 20th anniversary of LIVE AID. Gosh did I do a lot of drinking, drugging and disco-ing last night 20 years ago.
2005.07.14 09:48
The Semiology of God
God is very far away (as far as I'm concerned). For example, ever since David Letterman began to appear on TV late at night, God began to dress like David Letterman on late night TV. Those close to God were the only ones to notice the coincidence, but, since gossip travels fast and far, it was soon that most souls became aware of God dressing like David Letterman every night, thus, if most souls watch David Letterman, it is to see what God is wearing that day.
2005.07.14 10:19
The Semiology of God
God's dress 1966-67
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2005.07.14 10:49
to all you doubters: god's existence proven!!!
John the Baptist Piranesi just announced to the Horace Trumbauer Architecture Fan Club that he and Otto will be working on a new set of etchings, The Bible Study series.
"Hey Giovanni, is that going to be anything like The Prisons?"
2005.07.14 11:24
some beginnings of reenactment season
11 July 2004
doesthisblogmakemybuttlookbig.com/2004/07/happy bastille
14 July 1789
Bastille Day
14 July 1976
John Sebastian Matta commits suicide by jumping out a window of his twin brother Gordon's studio.
15 July 1815
Napoleon was exiled to the remote tiny volcanic island of St. Helena, south of the Equator.
15 July 1930
birth of Jacques Derrida
15 July 1997
the murder of Gianni Versace
15 July 2005
Blobfest
16 July 1928
birth of Johannes, Baron von Ow
16 July 1940
birth of Steven Izenour
16 July 2005
easternstate.org/events/bastille
2005.07.14 13:59
Re: Blobfest 2005
Today's post delivered a Bavarian flag with a portrait of Ludwig II centerpiece. Maybe I'll take it to Blobfest and run out the theater with it, or take it to Bastille Day and confuse everybody.
Chop! Chop! the King!
2005.07.14 16:28
Re: some beginnings of reenactment season
Signs (of information) with "patterns that enable rough predictions" all about them then?
2005.07.14 17:04
to all you doubters: god's existence proven!!!
Is that in John the Baptist Piranesi reality where order is made to look like chaos?
2005.07.14 17:07
color theory
Yes, the best color theory is to live it.
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