I’m skeptical. Contemporary artistic practice is a self referential system. It’s a game of recombinations. Its relation to the art market obstructs the chance of any critical approach to the regulation of today’s society.
Duchamp: You’re jealous. Because as a writer you don’t 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 to 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 inscription, with carving.
Natel: With what we today call graphical interfaces. What about tattoos?
Realometer: First man carved into his own flesh, then into the ground apart from him.
Jabès: Singing chants challenges inscription and writing.
Realo: Texts are frozen waves, which are set into movement by reading and copying. Copying a text 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 as well as focusing on media are offering possibilities to question this protection.
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Magnes: Don’ t be silly, let’s think of ways to 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.