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Repository 231: God Nose | The Radical Position of the Immaterial in Olfactory Art
Consequently, everything that concerns creativity is invisible, is a purely spiritual substance. And this work, with this invisible substance, is what I call “social sculpture.” This work with invisible substance is my domain, at first, there is nothing to see. Subsequently, when it becomes corporeal it appears initially in the form of a language. -Joseph Beuys Olfactory art’s immaterial qualities, you cannot see it, disrupts systems of representation. This silent and borderless focus is a radical reaction to the hyper-retinal,…
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Repository 159: Three Artists Celebrate Art History | An Elephant in the Room
A strange byproduct of the current system of art, at least the art in the marketplace and in graduate schools, is the ignorance of art historical reference and the assumption that all artists are on an island of one’s own, that stealing is what artists do, and that your individual spirit is louder than thousands of years of history. Surprisingly, and unbeknownst to non-art historians or non-art theorists, there are many artists, professional and otherwise, that throw a blind eye…
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Repository 78: Freedom is the Power to Translate
Since it’s the last week that my show is up in Portland, I thought I would post a piece or two to this forum. One of the more popoular was a chart that I made over the course of several years. It’s colorful and full of information, and open to interpretation. An installation image may be found here and here. The title of the piece is: “In a True Democracy the Many are Obligated to the Few”. A democracy implies a…
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