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Does Modern Art Give You A Headache
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This piece takes as its starting point a dialectical inversion of Dario Escobars 12 Minutes, 8 Seconds (2008). Does Modern Art Give You A Headache was shot and edited in less than an hour on 16 June 2009. The film came about as a result of my having attended two evening screenings of Guatemalan art videos in London on 5 and 6 May 2009. In a blog I posted about that event on 8 May 2009 entitled Performing Localities: Recent Guatemalan Performance Art On Video , I included the following observations about Escobars work: • • ... 12 Minutes, 8 Seconds (2008)... consisted of a fixed shot of a lit cigarette placed on a public fountain and filmed until it had burnt down to the butt and the remains were blown away by the wind. ...(T)his piece was a real groove sensation! You knew there would be a pay-off when the ash fell from the cigarette, and the way this was stretched out proved a real gas. This... made me think of Fluxus, and in particular of its simple instructional performances that were theorised by Maciunas as the monomorphic neo-haiku flux-event and which he counterposed to the self-indulgence of the mixed media neo-baroque happening. Needless to say, the soundtrack to 12 Minutes, 8 Seconds was simply ambient city noise captured as the film was made! • • To see this blog entry in its entirety go to: http://stewarthomesociety.org/blog/?p... • • This blog entry brought a comment from someone identifying themselves simply by the English first name Simon, who said: Escobar makes me want to plink, plink fizz a couple of ALKER SELTZER in a glass of water, recording the event. (Comment left May 8, 2009 at 2:26 pm). I decided to treat this comment as a Flux Script and went ahead and made this version of the piece. Many other versions could be made with different framings, backgrounds, light etc. I decided not to use live ambient sound and so stripped that out and replaced it with an audio piece I'd previously made with Nigel Ayers entitled Genetically Modified Metzger Manifesto . My lyrics to this were deliberately buried into the mix, so to make disentangling them easier, I reproduce them below: • • The damaged nature of industrial societies leads to auto-destructive art. • The sound of amplified jet engines cruising a mile above the earth. • The bombers circle and circle and circle around acid on nylon. • Machine produced and factory assembled art works by Gustav Metzger. • Combustion, compression, concrete, corrosion. • Convulsion, subversion, defection. • • Random activity and the tangential slogan no more beautiful ruins! • Smash the picturesque, smash capitalism, smash realism and smash abstraction. • Suited beings in Regent Street are monsters of self-regulation. • Everything, everything, everything else is an echo of Russian futurism • Combustion, compression, concrete, corrosion. • Convulsion, subversion, defection. • • The greatest art of the sixties was dumped nightly on the streets of Soho. • The greatest art of today is the spam filling your email inbox. • Far better than those poetry sites where people cut and paste words and phrases, • Is junk email which uses exactly the same technique to avoid spam filters. • Combustion, compression, concrete, corrosion. • Convulsion, subversion, defection. • • Thank you for purchasing my instructional video Make Money While You Shower. I think you'll agree it is the best $200 you'll have ever spent because let me assure you that there are a lot of men out there who will pay handsomely to film young women taking a shower, and they range from glamour film makers to rank amateurs. Of course you can make extra money from professionals by charging an additional fee for signing a release form... So how do you reach these desperate men? Just send me $200 and I'll tell you how in my instructional video Make Money From Your Website! • • Scientist must collaborate with artists, engineers, grifters and con-merchants. • Peoples power will accelerate the disintegration of the institution of art. • A total unity of idea, site, form, colour, method and timing of the work. • Words in freedom machine produced and factory assembled. • Combustion, compression, concrete, corrosion. • Convulsion, subversion, defection. • • Auto-destructive art is an attack upon capitalism and the drive to annihilation. • Glass, heat, human energy, electricity, feedback, explosives. • Duchamp said art works die and end up in the graveyard of museums. • Metzger proposed they should have a life varying from a few moments to 20 years. • Combustion, compression, concrete, corrosion. • Convulsion, subversion, defection.
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