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Some things about painting

Posted on: September 10th, 2012 by mar

Re-reading this morning:

“Contemporary painting seems tormented by this desire to represent the contemporary individual’s lived experience of space through the intersection of spatial and temporal networks, figures of meshing, and superimposed planes. It is an ambition that is shared by the cartographer in the era of GPS, which takes satellite images and adds to them the transport routes and communicative flows which constitute the reality of the territory really traveled by the individual. In a human space now completely surveyed and saturated, all geography becomes psychogeography – or even a tool for geocustomizing the world.” (Bourriaude, The Radicant pg. 120)

Some of the painters he refers to in this context:
Franz Ackermann, video
Michel Majerus
Miltos Manetas
Matthew Ritchie, video
Julie Mehretu

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Precariousness

Posted on: June 18th, 2009 by mar

“If contemporary art is the bearer of a coherent political project, it is surely this: to introduce precariousness into the very heart of the system of representations by means of which the powers that be manage behaviours, to weaken all systems, to endow the most well-established habits with the appearance of exotic rituals.” (Nicolas Bourriaud, The Radicant p99)
Still in the middle of my first read of The Radicant – in some early stage of digestion. But it is a joy.***** black rocks

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Nicolas Bourriaud: 2 interviews

Posted on: March 9th, 2009 by mar

From Art in America interview with Nicolas Bourriaud
BR: What is the ‘Altermodern?’
NB: First, it is an attempt to reexamine our present, by replacing one periodizing tool with another. After 30 years into the ‘aftershock’ of modernism and its mourning, then into the necessary post-colonial reexamination of our cultural frames, ‘Altermodern’ is a word that intends to define the specific modernity according to the specific context we live in – globalization, and its economic, political and cultural conditions. The use of the prefix “alter” means that the historical period defined by postmodernism is coming to an end, and alludes to the local struggles against standardization. The core of this new modernity is, according to me, the experience of wandering — in time, space and mediums. But the definition is far from being complete.
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