Jedric Viera

- At the opening of the Bauhaus institution Walter Gropius read his manifesto which declared in part: - | “there is no essential difference between the artist and the craftsman”

The Politics and Poetics of Camp is a radical reappraisal of the meaning and discourse of camp. The contributors look at both the meaning and the uses of camp performance, and ask: is camp a style, or a witty but nonetheless powerful cultural critique? The essays investigate camp from its early formations in the seventeenth and eighteenth century... See more

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- In 1964, Susan Sontag defined camp as an aesthetic “sensibility” that is plain to see but hard for most of us to explain: an intentional over-the-top-ness, a slightly (or extremely) “off” quality, bad taste as a vehicle for good art. - Camp is artificial, passionate, serious, Sontag writes. Camp is Art Noveau objects, Greta Garbo, Warner Brothers... See more

- Blockchain-enabled "Total Design" should allow us to invest in creative communities while casting off old world confines. Total design equates craftsmanship with artistry since it left an indelible mark on art & design practices until today. - It’s in the spirit of Total Design within the current paradigm that we must revisit present structure... See more

Carmen Merport Quiñones - camp’s most characteristic qualities—theatricality, extravagance, and a “seriousness that fails - Since the Met has us all talking about camp, we might recall Susan Sontag’s admonition, in her famous essay on the subject, that “To talk about Camp is…to betray it.” - due to Sontag’s initial ‘betrayal,’ camp has long been a... See more