Blog do Itaulab

quarta-feira, 3 de setembro de 2003

Itaulab, bombando na lista Syndicate: In fact, Cibercultura's proposal is not exactly promote blindly Art, but to question it. We like Hermann Broch's thoughts about kitsch art, a disgusting and convenient replication of reality. For Broch, art must recreate the real. That is our point. By the way, reify art is a dangerous faux pas, a fallacy. In this matter, RageBoy have a point in his post titled: "the difference between decoration and art": Some people seem to go trippy all over when it comes to ART. These people tend to think of themselves as artists. It's a big deal for them to be artists, because then they can tell other artists that they're artists too. Then they all talk about how heavy their art is and how they're getting these way deep insights and shit. To me, it seems a bit embarrassing. But you know my philosophy: live and let live. That's right. I mean, it's not like these individuals are actually hurting anyone with their meaningless bullshit about numinous archetypal this and that. But I have to say that this is why I am currently so fascinated by spam. It's definitely not ART, which to me, is a good thing. I fuck around with it and make it into anti-art. There's a long tradition of this sort of thing, not that I see myself as following in anybody's footsteps in this regard. I mean, in Tristan Tzara's day, they didn't even have spam. And yet, he said, "Art is not the most precious manifestation of life. Art has not the celestial and universal value that people like to attribute to it. Life is far more interesting." Yes, I would have to agree with the dead gentleman from Zürich. Yes indeed. His brouhaha precedes him. So back then, they had to use toilets and stuff like that. Urinals. Brides descending staircases in wireframe guilelessness. The fact of the matter, if you really want to know, is that I fucking hate art. I think it sucks. I would rather go to a Monster Truck rally than to the frigging Musee du Louvre (however you say that).
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