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“A music that transports the listener to the moment where he is.”
John Cage :: An Autobiographical Statement
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John Cage :: An Autobiographical Statement
https://www.johncage.org/autobiographical_statement.html
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“Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, “Why the Americans Are Often So Restless in the Midst of their Prosperity” (1835)
“When all prerogatives of birth and fortune have been abolished, when every profession is open to everyone …an ambitious man may think it is easy to launch himself on a great career and feel that he has been called to no
... See moreThis society which eliminates geographical distance reproduces distance internally as spectacular separation.
Society of the Spectacle
“It doesn’t really matter if the viewer understand the concepts of the artist by seeing the art. Once out of his hand the artist has no control over the way a viewer will perceive the work. Different people will understand the same thing in a different way.”
—Sol Lewitt, Paragraphs on Conceptual Art
“It doesn’t really matter if the viewer understands the concepts of the artist by seeing the art. Once out of his hand the artist has no control over the way a viewer will perceive the work. Different people will understand the same thing in a different way.”
Paragraphs on Conceptual Art
https://www.artforum.com/print/196706/paragraphs-on-conceptual-... See more
Paragraphs on Conceptual Art
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Notes on Practice
1. A refusal to allow your audience to typecast you is wise art strategy. Making it difficult for your audience to pin down you or your work is also resonant for longevity.
2. Our creative work, or the roles we play in it, are not defined by the stereotypes society places... See more
instagram.comOur very idea of productivity is premised on the idea of producing something new, whereas we do not tend to see maintenance and care as productive in the same way.
Jenny Odell • How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
“we should perhaps build into our strivings an awareness of the way our goals promise us a respite and a resolution that they cannot, by definition, deliver” (150).
Status Anxiety
Alain de Botton
“they exemplify a kind of ethical resignation. Their use of very limited, repeated operations may be taken to express a suspicion of the meaning of any activity that cannot be undertaken with the relaxed concentration they embody. Such works discover a freedom in the unforeseeable effects of repetitive, deliberate activity, although they seem also... See more