On a previous note. What to call this.. "style"? Its awesome.
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and Lings cars
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Visually it connects to the Ryan Trecartin, Captain Credible, Petra Cortwright hysteria that I have been mentioning earlier - what is it with this (?) that feels so strangely….precise in its description (or rather existence within and mirroring) of contemporary culture.
Im gonna try to answer my own question but it will sound like crap:
It is hysteric yet poetic.
It is violent, abusive, vain, post gender, post politics, post meaning.
It is the hyper presence of the sign disconnected from any significance.
Lots more, unlimited but less.
I'm reading Baudrillard's Fatal Strategies right now (and since like half a year back..). Not being a philosopher or anything I can't lay claims on totally understanding or correctly interpreting what he's talking about but since this site is anonymous I can state my uneducated opinions anyway (yes I know this sounds defensive and I feel defensive). He talks about this stuff though:
"The transpolitical is also this: the passage from growth to excrescence, from finality to hypertely, from organic equillibria to cancerous metastases. This is the site of of a catastrophe and no longer of a crisis. Things rush into it at the rythm of a technology, including soft and psychedelic technologies, which drag us ever further away from any reality, any history, any destiny". pg 46
And then, here somewhat out of context; "once it seemed to present itself as a revolution; today it ends up as special effects. And terrorism itself is only a gigantic special effect. However, this is not because no meaning is intended. Against the general transparence, terrorism wishes to call on things to regain their meaning again, but does no more than accelerate this sentence of death and indifference." pg 62-63.
ON Paris Hiltons Dog that will soon make an appearance in my work; Hi Doggie!
I think its extremely exciting to spend so much time and attention on something so ultimately trivial - Is this the artist way corresponding to a sad teenagers cutting up their arms? It feels like an insidious and sexy self-rape. Seductive for sure. Its a wilful and violent handover with the purpose of really proving that there truly aren't any boundaries to this state - the state of indifference, irony and pointlessness. Which is a point of liberation, because without meaning there is no boundaries. Anything is within reach.
Stockholm, will go back to studio where I might have left my wallet (hopefully).
Eat something first though.
13-01-06
