I am skeptical. Contemporary artistic practice is a self referential system. It is a game of recombinations. Its relation to the art market obstruct the chance of any critical approach to the regulation of today`s society.
Duchamp: You are jealous. Because as a writer you do not have the chance to sell your works.
Magnetising coils and Plasma of Wendelstein 7-X
The history of chinese painting and the history of Chinese research on magnetism converge in the word dao. I doubt that the dao is useful for contemporary artistic practice.
Magnes: There was a time when people conceived me as a sort of key. A key which opens experiences of infinity, of the universe, of the sublime.
Realometer: Given that it makes sense to speak of origins and starts: When did calculation start? It must have started with with inscription, with carving.
Natel: With all what we call to today graphical interfaces. What about tattoos?
Realometer: First man carved into his own flesh, than on grounds a part from him.
Jabès: Singing, chants challenges inscription and writing.
Realo: Texts are frozen waves, which reading and copying sets into movement. Copying a texting is a form of creating an atmosphere, of tuning in.
Realotext: Thinking of starts and origins implies a search for protection. Protection against the nameless, the infinite, the unconditioned. Art and the concentration on media is a way of questioning this protections.
Die Suche nach Anfängen und Ursprüngen ist Ausdruck eines Verlangens nach Schutz, nach Schutz gegenüber dem Namenlosen, dem Unendlichen, dem Unbegrenzten. Kunst und die Konzentration auf Medien ist ein Weg, diesen Schutz zu hinterfragen.
Magnes: Don’ t be silly, let’s check how we can avoid strict rules and oppositions like good and bad.
Duchamp: A charming way could be to signal how oppositions and rules evolve. Where does the rectangle come from, why and how did mankind start to draw lines?
Realo: How brave and interesting, sorry but I prefer to watch Magneto.
Realotext: We have to exclude Duchamp. Yesterday he has set a link to scientology. He did this with the picture of Sodahead.
This picture is an image for the slogan: Be the force with you! This is a slogan of Scientology. This is a slogan which reproduces a simple view on forces, a view which accepts only poles of good and bad energies.
D.: I’ve never read Descartes to speak of. … I am not a Cartesian by pleasure. I happen to have been born a Cartesian. The French education is based on a sequence of strict logic. You carry it with you. *
*Eric Cameron: „Given”. In: De Duve, Thierry (ed.): The Definitively Unfinished Marcel Duchamp (Nova Scoatia College of Art and Design, Halifax Nova Scotia). Cambridge: MIT Press, 1991, p. 17.
D.: A game of Chess is a visual and plastic thing, and if it isn’t geometric in the static sense of the word, it is mechanical, since it moves; it’ s a drawing, it’ s a mechanical reality.*
* Eric Cameron: „Given”. In: De Duve, Thierry (ed.): The Definitively Unfinished Marcel Duchamp (Nova Scoatia College of Art and Design, Halifax Nova Scotia). Cambridge: MIT Press, 1991, p. 16.