Anodyne
Tuesday, December 05, 2006
 
Warhol, cultural critique, neo-avant-garde... (Jeff Wall Hermes lecture via YouTube; lecture text available here soon)

"One could develep a mimesis, still within the institution of art, of any and every one of the potential new domains of creativity suggested by the conceptual reduction, but without thereby having to renounce the making of artworks..."

(Thus Broodthaers as curator of an imaginary museum; Andrea Fraser as gallery docent; Mark Dion as scientific researcher, & etc. Wall is, I think, largely negative about these developments, but it is possible to imagine a further kink in the conceptual chain: a ordinary person coming to art not by making objects, but by reading and thinking about art, thereby perceiving the possibility of the mimesis of the role of "artist." Such an individual could theorize a practice of "art production" self-reflexively reporting on that complicated mimetic game. Eg.,

A.'s mimesis: art director and CEO of an "artistic corporation." A factory.

B's mimesis: A.)
- posted by cjb @ 9:31 PM


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