publishing material no longer available in English + translating materials no longer available in English
sacred role of the book
books in artistic practice - not as catalogue or afterthought - not asking distinguished curators to write praise/analysis of the show in their books as it resembles a form of insider trading - which would be illegal in any other field, but is somehow the modus operandi in the art world
we don't allow anyone to write about us in our books - if i commission you, you won't critique me - it is not fertile territory for a critque
amphiboly - cognitive dissonance - poetics & polemics
two ideas one butting up against the other
Berlin Wall (fall of communism, 20th century) VS Great Wall of China (political Islam of XXI)
two registers as well it could be
"There is no LEFT anymore."
Marx VS Mohammed
(Norman Brown) VS(James Joyce)
two social critiques Marxism and Islam - line from Norman Brown that both believe in one world or none - not in a pejorative sense but in a sense that one cannot be prosperous while another in front is deprived - bringing unexpected things together
vertical knowledge (Germany, Russia) VS horizontal knowledge (US liberal arts)
how to get at affective/digestive/sensual knowledge - forms of knowing beyond mind
books - guidebooks into what we will produce, products of research, not analyses of what we did
Art is not the end game
counter nonsense with wisdom
- not middle east china or russia
the obscurity of the region is a lie.
fill in gap - not as scholars or activists but to ask questions otherwise
ART ---> SERVICE INDUSTRY (but who do you serve)
the importance of hospitality and generosity to the practice
different modes of presentation - books (discursive), lectures (performative), sculpture (formal)
don't present our research in our exhibitions - resuscitation
ANTI-MODERNIST NOT ANTI-MODERNISM
challenging occidental ideas of future (ahead) and past (behind) - provided an example from a non-western culture
practice is not about ourselves - our practice is only collaborative because it is not about our selves
interested in the "FACULTY OF SUBSTITUTION" - we never tell the story frontally - circuity - going around
interested in representation in a larger
we are not experts on a region - impossible to be an expert in their designated geographical area with the hundreds of cultures and languages present - exactly this idea we are working against - we are not interested in the merely specific
SECULAR RAGE - Poland and Turkey as countries grappling with faith/society relationship - consensus that faith is reactionary in France, other western Euro nations - we work against this notion of being beyond faith - we work against consensus in general
interested in NORMAL people, LAYMEN - often the best collaborators are not the academic experts, but the hobbyists
how to make something seemingly remote immediate and something immediate remote
we are devoted to those things we don't know
research process - 2 yrs of bibliographic, academic research - then 1 yr of how to convey and how to present - embarking on a journey
pedagogy assumes we know but you don't
sacred role of the book
books in artistic practice - not as catalogue or afterthought - not asking distinguished curators to write praise/analysis of the show in their books as it resembles a form of insider trading - which would be illegal in any other field, but is somehow the modus operandi in the art world
we don't allow anyone to write about us in our books - if i commission you, you won't critique me - it is not fertile territory for a critque
amphiboly - cognitive dissonance - poetics & polemics
two ideas one butting up against the other
Berlin Wall (fall of communism, 20th century) VS Great Wall of China (political Islam of XXI)
two registers as well it could be
"There is no LEFT anymore."
Marx VS Mohammed
(Norman Brown) VS(James Joyce)
two social critiques Marxism and Islam - line from Norman Brown that both believe in one world or none - not in a pejorative sense but in a sense that one cannot be prosperous while another in front is deprived - bringing unexpected things together
vertical knowledge (Germany, Russia) VS horizontal knowledge (US liberal arts)
how to get at affective/digestive/sensual knowledge - forms of knowing beyond mind
books - guidebooks into what we will produce, products of research, not analyses of what we did
Art is not the end game
counter nonsense with wisdom
- not middle east china or russia
the obscurity of the region is a lie.
fill in gap - not as scholars or activists but to ask questions otherwise
ART ---> SERVICE INDUSTRY (but who do you serve)
the importance of hospitality and generosity to the practice
different modes of presentation - books (discursive), lectures (performative), sculpture (formal)
don't present our research in our exhibitions - resuscitation
ANTI-MODERNIST NOT ANTI-MODERNISM
challenging occidental ideas of future (ahead) and past (behind) - provided an example from a non-western culture
practice is not about ourselves - our practice is only collaborative because it is not about our selves
interested in the "FACULTY OF SUBSTITUTION" - we never tell the story frontally - circuity - going around
interested in representation in a larger
we are not experts on a region - impossible to be an expert in their designated geographical area with the hundreds of cultures and languages present - exactly this idea we are working against - we are not interested in the merely specific
SECULAR RAGE - Poland and Turkey as countries grappling with faith/society relationship - consensus that faith is reactionary in France, other western Euro nations - we work against this notion of being beyond faith - we work against consensus in general
interested in NORMAL people, LAYMEN - often the best collaborators are not the academic experts, but the hobbyists
how to make something seemingly remote immediate and something immediate remote
we are devoted to those things we don't know
research process - 2 yrs of bibliographic, academic research - then 1 yr of how to convey and how to present - embarking on a journey
pedagogy assumes we know but you don't