Anodyne
Thursday, July 27, 2006
 
Potential Conclusions

1. As magazine criticism becomes steadily more impoverished (for example, Christopher Mooney's breathy, jaw-droppingly inane "profile" of Vancouver's visual arts scene, just published in Modern Painters), sophisticated criticism may withdraw into art, like a hermit crab scrambling into a vacant shell.

2. Criticism may come to employ rhetorical or critical strategies now primarily associated with art; criticism may become "performative." It is easy, for example, to imagine works of criticism taking forms similar to Robert Morris' performance 2.13, or to Andrea Fraser's institutional critiques.

3. A work of criticism-as-art can probably only legitimately be accepted as art if it somehow interrogates its own status as art.

3a. A work of criticism-as-art should somehow aestheticize its critique; in doing so, it will open itself up to critical possibilities its maker(s) might never have previously considered.

4. All these propositions and conclusions may be wrong.
- posted by cjb @ 7:35 PM


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