Josephine said,
> Interesting to compare list cultures isnt it?
All comes down to noyau and the Dear Enemy phenomenon.
> Now can someone please explain "and a presentation from
> Steve Baker that contrasts Derrida's
> cat and a Kac's flourescent bunny to explore an emerging
> anti- " as stated below?
[SNIP]
> * and a presentation from Steve Baker that contrasts
> Derrida's
> cat and a Kac's flourescent bunny to explore an emerging
> anti-
Well, the obvious comment would be that a "flourescent (sic!) bunny"
suggests transgenetic orthography.
Which doesn't inspire much confidence that the final trailing "anti-" on the
part of the conference promoters is deliberate. "Anti-vivisection arguments
and the aesthetics of transgenetic art," maybe?
As to Derrida's cat, surely this has to be a plastic cross between
Shrodinger and de Saussure?
Mind you, a conference which includes "Coding the Spectacle" and actually
mentions Guy Debord can't all be bad, can it?
(Well, yes -- possibly the full presentation will be less illiterate over
Situationist politics than the blurb suggests, but I wouldn't bet my hat on
it.)
As to eating dead babies, Swift did it better.
Cheers,
Robin
(I must be getting old, but I was reminded of this.
<g>
R2.)
Blood sculpture may be ruined
Angelique Chrisafis, arts correspondent
Thursday July 4, 2002
The Guardian
Self by Marc Quinn
The art world was last night trying to establish whether builders had
accidentally defrosted a seminal piece of Britart by unplugging collector
Charles Saatchi's kitchen freezer.
Rumours spread after suggestions that Saatchi had stored a blood sculpture
made by Britart's enfant terrible, Marc Quinn, among his frozen peas. The
work, Self, consists of Quinn's head cast in nine pints of his own frozen,
congealed blood.
Builders who arrived to extend Saatchi's London kitchen at the request of
his partner, the television chef, Nigella Lawson, are said to have unplugged
the appliances to find red liquid oozing across the floor.
Saatchi declined to comment last night. Some art world insiders were
sceptical, arguing the blood head was always exhibited in its own
refrigeration unit. Saatchi bought the piece for a rumoured £13,000 in 1991
from art dealer Jay Jopling, who said the "very fragile" sculpture "requires
quite a bit of commitment on the part of the collector".
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,749033,00.html
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