[-empyre-] complicit post

[G.H. Hovagimyan]

gh comments below:

On Jan 2, 2010, at 8:01 PM, Sean Cubitt wrote:

> vant-gardes were always based on the principle that whatever they  
> invented
> would be commercialised in time - often very swiftly nowadays. No  
> technique
> is intrinsically safe from the process. Perpetual innovation is  
> art's job,
> an innovation which constantly fuels capital, which is now so  
> regimented it
> is incapale of generating its own novelty. But that is another
> contradiction, and if there is one thing worth keeping from Teddy
> Wiesengrund it is the dialectic!


gh comments:
I think Sean hit upon the reality of art making today. The inventions  
of the Avant-Garde show up as hip toothpaste adverts six months after  
they are exhibited in the art world.   The question becomes how does  
one make or do some art work that is undigestible to the commercial  
world.  This has replaced the Epatez-du Bourgeois  strategies of  
earlier avant-garde .

G.H. Hovagimyan
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