February 2012
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a year from monday by john cage 6/10
the stranger by albert camus
nausea by sartre 6/10
crime and punishment by dostoevsky
white noise by don delillo
we by zamyatin
doors of perception by huxley
film as a subversive art by amos vogel
cinema 1 by gilles deleuze
cinema 2 by gilles deleuze
sculpting in time by andrei tarkovsky 8/10
on the road by keurac
naked lunch by burroughs
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Susumu Yokota || Kodomotachi
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A machine can never become farnous, and Warhol only ever sought the kind of mechanical fame that has no consequences and leaves no traces. A photogenic fame that calls for everything and for every individual today to be seen, to be celebrated by sight. This is what Warhol is: he is merely the agent of the ironic appearance of things. He is only the medium for this giant advertisement that the...
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Art is about inventing another scene; inventing something other than reality. For art, reality is nothing. I wouldn’t call classical art figurative. It was like a desire for seduction, it was a song. The purpose of art is to invent a whole other scene. So it is something quite different. At bottom, art never concerned itself with the question of reality in its right form. And that lasted...
Gramatik || Good Evening Mr. Hitchcock
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Interviewer: What is art to you?
Art is a form. A form is something that does not exactly have history, but a destiny. Art had a destiny. Today, art has fallen into value, and unfortunately at a time when values have suffered. Values: aesthetic value, commercial value… values can be negotiated, bought and sold, exchanged. Forms, as forms, cannot be exchanged for something else, they can...
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It is important here not to confuse publicity with the pleasure or benefits to be enjoyed from the things it advertises. Publicity is effective precisely because it feeds upon the real. Clothes, food, cars, cosmetics, baths, sunshine are real things to be enjoyed in themselves. Publicity begins by working on a natural appetite for pleasure. But it cannot offer the real object of pleasure and...
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