5 Questions/Responses, 3/1/10
1.The second paragraph on page 80 is depressing. Today's trends in fashion and music are no longer monumental and distinct as they were in past decades. We have brought back the bell bottom, then skinny jeans, retro and vintage was in too. I wonder, have we run out of styles? Is that possible? Are we trying to name the next art movement...the 'post post modern' or 'altermodern' or whatever...but are we really just in a long, slow evolving post modern state? Can you really see a difference in the art produce and shown in the Altermodern show (the book we had in class the other day)? Are we just re categorizing what has been happening in art?
2. A question from Nietzschean: "Are you willing to relive for all eternity the moments you are experiencing right now?" Well no. This very moment, I am reading this book, and I defiantly don't want this experience for eternity. Moments worth reliving are ones when a person feels pleasure, tranquility, joy, peace, rest, or excitement.
"The era of commitment has passed." Really? Is the era of commitment modernism? Are we in a way coming back to modernism in some ways? How?
3.Page 83 "Culture is being threatened when all worldly objects and things, produced in the past and present, are treated as mere functions for the life process of society, as though they are there only to fulfill some need." How can we say that about the past objects? What about stuff made before modernism, before the enlightenment or the industrial revolution? Those makers were unaware of todays globalization. Do we hold on to those objects for information? Why do we keep them. Bourriarud mentioned that we keep museum objects to store their data...?
4. Museums as a storage of data, not for appreciating the actual object. Will art become non-physical all together? Will it exist just as conceptual ideas, since we have an abundance of materials, both used and new. Although, we will soon run out of new materials.
5. Ok, on page 92, Bourriard mentions how the precariousness on contemporary are brings us closer to modernity. "For the omnipresence of precariousness in contemporary art inevitably pushes it back toward the source of modernity: the fleeting present moment, the shifting crowd, the street, and the ephemeral."
