2003.06.06
2003.06.06 13:45
homage to Matta-Clark's father and godfather
Just before encountering The Bell and the Glass at the Philadelphia Museum of Art this past Wednesday, I was walking down the stairs directly adjacent gallery 182 where The Bell and the Glass is installed. On the landing half way down these stairs is the entrance to the 20th century art curatorial offices, and on the wall next to the office door presently hangs Roberto Matta Echaurren's The Bachelors Twenty Years After. This painting is a fairly new acquisition of the PMA, and when I first saw it back in February it was hanging within the main contemporary art galleries (where a rather famous early Pollack currently hangs).
I didn't think of it on Wednesday, but last night it dawned on me that on Wednesday morning I submitted a post at Atrforum/talkback Re: Matta-Clark (son of Roberto Matta Echaurren and godson of Marcel Duchamp) which was not initially accepted, then I went to the Phladelphia Museum of Art (because I was extremely bored at home) where I unexpectedly encountered The Bachelors Twenty Years After, and then unexpectedly encountered The Bell and the Glass.
As I already mentioned, I don't know much about Gordon Matta-Clark, but for some reason I became unexpected/unknowingly close (albeit with degrees of separation) to him on Wednesday.
2003.06.06 13:54
Re: Weapons of Mass Tamp...
...you forgot to mention how Duchamp very often reenacted his own oeuvre during the latter part of his career!
2000.06.06
museumpeace - some doubts, some hopes
As somewhat usual, I’m now feeling doubts regarding starting museumpeace and buying new computer equipment as well. It seems hard for me to imagine easily making $2000.00 to cover the cost of the new equipment and the domain hook-up. It just annoys me that I’m always spending money rather than making money. Moreover, it isn’t at all clear that I will make money via museumpeace. So I guess the main thing that happened is now some reality is setting in after my ephoric last week.
As I recorded my art/arris databases today, however, there is a lot of potential for me to generate easily produced art for sale at museumpeace. For example, there is much that I can do with the ignudis and the Duchamp cracks. This means that I have to begin putting together an agenda regarding what art I want to produce. I also have to write out a program for museumpeace itself, meaning I have to answer the question of “what exactly is museumpeace going to be?”
With the CR recorder, and with my latest use of html, I’m thinking much more of focusing on creating many electronic publications, involving both art and architecture. Right now I’m thinking that producing many different titles is perhaps the best and/or easiest way to generate more sales. This is making me think that what I should do now everyday is generate web pages, something like 1.3 Mbs worth. The point being to progressively build up a vast library of data (text and images hyper connected), which will become the resources for forthcoming books.
I suppose my biggest fear is not having the energy or commitment to follow through with museumpeace once I finally get it started. Of course, I did stick with Quondam, and I assume I will behave the same with museumpeace. The difference now, however, is that I’m wanting to accomplish so much more in much less time. For example, I have to do all of the following in order to start museumpeace the way I want to:
1. design and generate the web interface for museumpeace.
2. get the site online.
3. newly register museumpeace @ eBay (with a museumpeace name and email address).
4. figure out the contents of museumpeace -- what will constitute the inaugural exhibit and display?
5. how exactly do I design the ordering system, keeping in mind that most items will be ono-of-a-kind, and that I will use ebay for auctions regularly; it might be as easy as writing out a “how to order page”.
6. do an inventory of what art I currently have.
The biggest task for me is to just begin designing and generating the site. This means also figuring out what the museum will feature, and, even more important, what kind of virtual building it’s going to be. Do I design museumpeace with the notion that its contents will often change? Is there a permanent collection? I’ve decided to start by looking through some art books and catalogues. Essentially though, I want a design that takes excellent advantage of hyperlinkages and provocative visuals.
I looked through the latest Duchamp and Rauschenberg catalogues, and the Duchamp book offers the best inspiration as to how to organize (and indeed manifest) museumpeace, in that it (the book) comprises an exhibit of (all?) the Duchamp works, plus it “catalogues” Duchamps life on a daily basis, and this life section is a collection of both texts and images that relate to Duchamp’s artistic procress. I believe museumpeace can also contain such a life and work catalogue, and I hope even something more in that the web site itself will be an art work itself. The best example I can thinkof so far is for me to just use Hey Art... and treat it exhibitionally and analytically (and even extendedly). In fact, I could create a whole book on Hey Art... via web pages, and that is just what I’m going to do, thus creating one of (if not the) first museumpeace (digital) book.
This note about how to start museumpeace is now turning into me now trying to figure out what is the best strategy for using the CD recorder, and what Cds to generate for sale at both Quondam and museumpeace.
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