Archive for the 'art read' Category

Pinch Nose, Count One to Three.

Sunday, April 25th, 2010

“…some talk about revolution, others talk about a natural evolution. These changes affect everything, from creation to distribution, from artist to consumer.”

Press Pause Play sums up this cosmic explosion of the creative mind. With an increasing supply of a multi-disciplinary workforce, corporations are carving up departments with opening job descriptions for that T individuals.

T abbreviates transdiciplinary.

This wave of mergers and acquisitions of talents and personalities inevitably evolve the pedagogy of established academic institutions and their reputations likewise. Business schools operating right in the heart of the city’s circus have recently appeal to aspiring artists and artisans; for an anthropologist and a film maker, it is more radical to switch sides.

We see fine arts colleges curating design departments, after free falling Foucault, we seek structure from Fuller. Art critics are churning out design manifestos to urge bespectacled starchitects to be more immersive in their ideas. Boutique publishing houses are gleefully taking on the craft of spine binding them beautiful prose.

In retrospect, once a musician told me that the best bands are formed in fine art studios, those who go to music schools prefer to perfect scores from the dead, that seems like a lifetime ago. Now music schools are re tuning sound waves with leading technological institutes. Classical geniuses perform scores reflecting his discovery of Garageband and Ableton.

That is of course the notion of ‘the best’ falls under the zero-genre.

At a dinner table, project work takes precedence over designation, we ask ‘what are you up to right now‘, ask not what we do.

Let us welcome this non-beginning.

Transcendental

Saturday, February 13th, 2010

Dérive

Thursday, November 5th, 2009

The Aging Age of Contemporary Art

Monday, October 26th, 2009

Cities, Cities, I’m Addicted

Monday, October 26th, 2009

Psychogeography:Bermondsey

Sunday, July 19th, 2009

The Most Bastardized Nation in the Eyes of Media and Politics

Sunday, June 21st, 2009

Turkish 101

Thursday, November 27th, 2008

What is Design?

Monday, November 24th, 2008

Functional Theartre

Sunday, October 5th, 2008

Surreal Beauty

Friday, August 3rd, 2007

Creative People (Happy People II)

Wednesday, May 16th, 2007

Happy People

Wednesday, May 16th, 2007

Le’ Kidnapped

Monday, May 14th, 2007

The Crate Controversy

Tuesday, October 17th, 2006