Re: [-empyre-] translation--it's a class thing

[ian clothier <hybridia1@yahoo.com>]

My feeling is that Danny hit a spot with this comment
around gaps, inviting the coterie of gap morphology:
separated, inbetween, overlapping, connected,
disconnected and ruptured places, that induce
heterogenic, multiplicitous, stable and dynamic
consequences. 

One location of contemporary art is exactly this
border. And it is paradoxical that net art can mediate
this space, particularly where class distinction can
be made more complex by cross cultural interaction.
The dissasemblage of social hierarchies, while at the
same time utilising a technological hierarchy, is one
thing the net can do. 

What made Danny's comments even more pungent for me
however, is that a senior student is exactly at the
juncture described - enrolled in a visual arts degree
and wanting to graduate with a modified car in his
final exhibition. And it's not like the student wants
to go on to a Lee Bul like practice; actually the
intention is to carry on modifying cars. That juncture
has a piquancy for me, given an intrigue in the gaps
alluded to, but it would be fair to say this is an
approach that worries some colleagues. I suppose for
me that once the facade of culture is stripped by
hybridity, heterogeneity and multiplicity overtake,
lines of cultural referencing are distorted (or able
to be connected, disconnected and reconnected) and an
enormous diversity in approach is authorised -
judgement seems out of place. The question of art
status arises again, and the point returns to issues
already raised.

Ian Clothier


  

--- Danny Butt <db@dannybutt.net> wrote:

So it is not supposing  
> that the typically bourgeois new media curator can
> necessarily have a  
> conversation with the typically working-class
> modified car  
> enthusiast, but that by bringing the very different
> consciousnesses  
> together the outline of the gaps between them can be
> traced, and the  
> aesthetic question in this kind of "gap" is also,
> somehow, what  
> contemporary art is all about.
> 
> Not sure if that makes any sense or if I've just
> tried to write too  
> much before breakfast.
> 
> if i can be excused a plug, I'd love anyone
> interested in the works  
> under discussion to consider contributing to a book
> we're currently  
> putting together that relates very strongly to these
> themes: <http:// 
> culturalfutures.place.net.nz/publications.html>
> 
> best,
> 
> Danny
> 
> --
> http://www.dannybutt.net
> Cultural Futures - December 1-5, 2005 - http:// 
> culturalfutures.place.net.nz


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