Isn't that general cultural practice? How perception turns into
artefact, and then commodity... the whole apparatus of the cultural
machine, neutering art as its absorbs it, rendering conventions as
invisible ideologies, giving it back as placebo. Certainly that seems
the paradigm of the unlived life to me. I see a lot of it.
And isn't the work of artists to return to perceiving as verb? Perhaps
that requires a violent decontextualisation, a ripping out of art and
meaning into a private contextualisation that resonates through the
force of its desire to exist, in the face of everything that claims it
doesn't.
On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 7:29 AM, Dominic Fox <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> "as long as it is somehow recontextualized, revitalized"
>
> Funnily enough I was talking about hauntology and vitalism just the other day:
>
> http://codepoetics.com/poetix/?p=808
>
> It might be interesting - I won't say *more* interesting - to consider
> a practice of contextualising things in such a way as to completely
> drain them of vitality, divest them of aura, treat them as artifacts
> of a culture that was totally alien and totally extinct, as indeed the
> contextualising culture will also one day be. Maybe start with the
> 60s. See how close you can get to the present day...
>
> Dominic
>
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