gallery hop today
“trying to look good limits my life”
- Stefan Sagmeister, Deitch Projects 2008
sagmeister photographed coils laid in the shape of the word “limits” onto water in a pool. each of the other words were spelled out in different canvas using other scenes. for example, “trying” was a photograph of electrical tape on a barbed wire fence. but the “limits” swimming pool was my favorite. it had an organic shape and a minimalist cut out in the concrete for plants, which made it look like it could have been in one of the photographer, larry sultan’s, porn house settings.
LEGIBILITY, GESTURES. “diverse artistic strategies that complicate the LEGIBILITY of lack and difference…a series of sculptural and post-sculptural GESTURES.”
-Jeffrey Uslip, Nina In Position, Artists Space 2008
LEGIBILITY is something that we commonly associate with the effort that goes into reading bad handwriting. it’s an interesting way to look at expression and understanding
GESTURES are not made in stone, they are ephemeral. they also point to other things
seeing the intellectual’s task as one of ‘resistance’, even to ‘consensus’, which ‘has become an outmoded and suspect value’. Postmodernists responded to this view, partly for the good reason that by doing so they could side with those who didn’t ‘fit’ into the larger stories — the subordinated and the marginalized — against those with the power to disseminate the master narratives.”
-Christopher Butler, Oxford
was the role of the intellectual different before this?
do all of today’s intellectuals think they are rebels?
what is the value, ego value, and identity value of resistance?