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2003.01.19 12:43
Re: Critical Theory Clinically Dead?
I've owned Formless since March 2002, and read a fair bit of it back then. It's good reading in my opinion. I'll give it some more attention, especially with regard to the sacred/profane issue.
I think I know what you mean by "This moral dilemma in art is a little silly," but, as far as I and my art (which includes chronosomatics) are concerned, it is nonetheless worthwhile investigating where "moral dilemmas" actually come from.
2003.01.19 14:01
Re: Critical Theory Clinically Dead?
Today 12 years ago, I completed a work entitled Teacher's Pet in Paris, and I want to compose a small web display of it by the end of today (hopefully). This work is the coda of The Dick Manifestos, a collection of works from the early/mid 1980s.
2003.01.19 16:05
Re: Critical Theory Clinically Dead?
So that means one now has to be aware-period, but in order to be so purely aware one must subtract history/reality. [How does one subtract history/reality if one is not aware of history/reality?]
Is pure awareness like committing a murder while not being aware that murder is a crime?
Well, why the hell not. Awareness without consequences. Sounds like the perfect party to me.
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2003.01.19 17:26
Mnemonically Delineating Veracity
"Authenticity is one thing, veracity another."
Marguerite Yourcenar
An apparent lack of veracity has always been at issue within modern interpretations G. B. Piranesi's Ichnographia Campus Martius (1757-62) despite Piranesi's extraordinary 'scientific' knowledge of ancient Rome and it's remains as evident throughout the four volumes of Le Antichità Romane (1756), as well as throughout Piranesi's other archaeological publications, including the Il Campo Marzio dell'Antica Roma. Contemporary architectural theorists from historian Manfredo Tafuri to architect Peter Eisenman view the Ichnographia as a city devoid of its own history, thus a plan prognosticating autonomous urbanism, yet that is exactly what the Ichnographia Campi Martii is not.
Beginning with comparisons between select portions of the Piranesi's Ichnographia and Giambattista Nolli's Pianta Grande di Roma, it becomes clear that the Ichnographia is an elaborate mnemonic devise. Like the imaginary building plans that Roman orators created in their minds as an aid toward the memorization of their speeches, the Ichnographia is literally an imaginary plan manifest as an aid toward the memorization of virtually all of ancient Rome's history. Thus the Ichnographia is not a fantastical reconstruction, rather, like the art of memory itself, the Ichnographia is a reenactment.
Mnemonically Delineating Veracity concludes with a brief reenactment of how an independent artist from Philadelphia came to discover a heretofore unnoticed initial(?) printing of the Ichnographia Campus Martius.
Stephen Lauf
2003.01.19
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2004.01.19 16:23
Re: New Jersey Art Scene?
I like how you can see lots of Indians (ie, Subcontinentals) patronizing the Trump Taj Mahal at Atlantic City. I think lots of reincarnated ancient Romans go to Caesars Palace too.
Wildwood NJ is, of course, the Doo-Woop Architecture Mecca. Always worth the pilgrimage.
And the second most incredible building of the 20th Century is just off New Jersey's southern-most tip.
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