http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia
Even though I have entitled this post 'Self' the above link cannot tell you anything about Wikipedia you did not already know. The definition of Wikipedia (according to me) is the articulation of collective knowledge, Wiki is defined every time anyone edits the site. It does not need a page to state what it is, it needs action.
I alone could put forward a definition of the site on the site - the definition may be highly inaccurate but through my action of being a part of the process of sharing what I believe to know I am working to keep this source alive.
I'll come back to this in a bit.
R B Grange
22/02/2007
18/02/2007
The Door : A story
A Passage taken from Sketch book: 21/12/06 - present (13/01/07)
On the eleventh I had my first driving test. I passed.
Waiting for Tony Moore to arrive two hours before my passing I was in the hall, the square meter of hall. The wind, as it does, was blowing - if the wind does not blow it is just air. It struck me that the moving door, for it did move, or judder, vibrating in its frame, was art. It was how art is.
People see all sorts in art works; they see people, animals, emotions, activity, themselves, all things that are not there.
From the point of view of someone not paying attention the movement of the door in the wind could be someone trying to come through, or a letter or message being posted. But no, it is just the wind. A nothing shaking an object, not saying anything, just rattling it a bit.
When art is perceived by most they hope something will be imparted to them. That they will find some deeper meaning about the work, about life, about themselves. They believe something is trying to be imparted, a message breaking through. But there is nothing there, just a bit of nothing.
R B Grange.
On the eleventh I had my first driving test. I passed.
Waiting for Tony Moore to arrive two hours before my passing I was in the hall, the square meter of hall. The wind, as it does, was blowing - if the wind does not blow it is just air. It struck me that the moving door, for it did move, or judder, vibrating in its frame, was art. It was how art is.
People see all sorts in art works; they see people, animals, emotions, activity, themselves, all things that are not there.
From the point of view of someone not paying attention the movement of the door in the wind could be someone trying to come through, or a letter or message being posted. But no, it is just the wind. A nothing shaking an object, not saying anything, just rattling it a bit.
When art is perceived by most they hope something will be imparted to them. That they will find some deeper meaning about the work, about life, about themselves. They believe something is trying to be imparted, a message breaking through. But there is nothing there, just a bit of nothing.
R B Grange.
17/02/2007
Absent Art
('Absent Art', 'Oblivion Art' and 'The Art of Nothing' are not real art movements. Some work in existence might be perceived as the kind of art being discussed here, but it is not, all work discussed here is not in existence)
The beauty of absent art is its constancy.
It does not exist in the comprehension of the beholder, there is nothing to behold, and therefore the art works outside of the human, outside of the random skittish behaviour to which humans are prone.
Of course the Object non-existing by itself, imparting the constant message of its absence perceives none of this.
To be lost is not to have no context but to have no understanding. Works of art, however strange this concept may seem, have no context. They exist permanently within themselves. They naturally exist apart from us and therefore the beauty of nothing and of absence and oblivion is not for us, it is for the art. Art creates a utopia for itself, not for man.
But even absent art cannot help being viewed and misunderstood.
People may enter an art gallery, see the remnants or the suggestion towards a piece of 'Oblivion Art' and think:
'THE WORK IS NOT HERE.
I AM HERE,
THEREFORE THE WORK MUST BE ABOUT ME.'
Wrong, art work is never about you.
R B Grange
The beauty of absent art is its constancy.
It does not exist in the comprehension of the beholder, there is nothing to behold, and therefore the art works outside of the human, outside of the random skittish behaviour to which humans are prone.
Of course the Object non-existing by itself, imparting the constant message of its absence perceives none of this.
To be lost is not to have no context but to have no understanding. Works of art, however strange this concept may seem, have no context. They exist permanently within themselves. They naturally exist apart from us and therefore the beauty of nothing and of absence and oblivion is not for us, it is for the art. Art creates a utopia for itself, not for man.
But even absent art cannot help being viewed and misunderstood.
People may enter an art gallery, see the remnants or the suggestion towards a piece of 'Oblivion Art' and think:
'THE WORK IS NOT HERE.
I AM HERE,
THEREFORE THE WORK MUST BE ABOUT ME.'
Wrong, art work is never about you.
R B Grange
Five Objects
In being asked to become engaged in five objects I realise yet again that a lot of the other people on my course are people who i do not like. They think that you have to be creative in the studio and formal in the lectures. They ask questions of no relevance and act as though there is a right and wrong answer.
Anyway. You may well be wondering which five objects i have chosen to look into.
Anyway. You may well be wondering which five objects i have chosen to look into.
- The Public Institution I plan to engage in is www.wikipedia.org . This shall start with my creating of some pages on concepts i note are missing from the online source - the word 'oblivion' only links you to other things, most of which are to do with computer games and popular music, and the word 'absence' redirects you to 'nothing'. I found the latter here particularly annoying because their meanings are completely different.
- The Private Institution shall be the enigma that is Private Eye. I have already drafted a letter to Mr Hislop asking weather or not any money is made from the sale of said paper.
- ---Still not sure on the artist though - I think I might like to look into someone involved in Handmade films, or maybe John Hughes the director and writer of The Breakfast Club.
- The Medium shall be the relationship or the gap between objects - this can encompass discussion, correspondence, , silence, interior design, ergonomics, negative space, clothing, lots of stuff.
- ---Still need to get into a journal, I think it will end up with a contemporary poetry one, which is fine by me.
Origin: In mathematics, the origin of a coordinate system is the point where the axes of the system intersect: 0,0
R B Grange
An Introduction
This blog is the electronic representation of my thoughts, feelings and inclinations about the art world. Art histories, critical theory, contemporary practice will all be embraced, along with pop culture references, basic mathematics and my work.
I have already started a blog in my myspace which may be found at www.myspace.com/everyonearoundhere , but, if i may, i would like to start with one a fresh. Some pieces of writing may come into play in this blog, or they may not.
Now to the question of the Art World. I say 'art world' but in my mind there are many art worlds, all clashing or complementing or blindly coexisting. The art world in which i see myself frightens me. I say names of artists and movements and ideas which some of my peers have never heard of and that scares me. Equally; I'm scared when someone mentions an artist whom i have never heard of. This puts me in mind of a quote from The Wind in the Willows.
" 'Beyond the Wild Wood comes the Wide World,' said the Rat. 'And that's something...' "
So, I see myself in a huge world, not lost, but a little sheepish - but what of the world in to which i wish to be belong? This world would be more or less as it is now with me as part of the establishment, but what does that mean? The Establishment. Those that have made it? Those who make a living through art or art criticism? I do not believe that i am the best person to comment on 'the establishment', because i am not, as of yet, sure exactly what it is, or what it does. Maybe on can only know what the establishment is in retrospect and, if this is the case, the establishment is only the people (or ideas) that have the strongest influence on later work.
In E H Gombrich's The Story of Art Gombrich refers to something like this in Chapter 28. This chapter, a later addition to the book, embraces how one cannot fully comprehend what is going on about them, nor how they them selves are influence the world. Kurt Schwitters, whom Gombrich refers to, seems to be an artist over looked in his time, but he and other Dada artists, have become for most the key source of artistic pursuit. My favourite art movements, the Fluxus movement and the minimal art of the nineteen sixties, are direct descendants of those first conceptual steps taken in the interwar years.
My starting point of reference to the contemporary art world shall be a word touched upon last term. I enjoy notions of nothing - a nothing that is, a nothing that was and a nothing that will be, and therefore the word which is choose is 'oblivion'.
I think I'm done.
R B Grange.
This blog is the electronic representation of my thoughts, feelings and inclinations about the art world. Art histories, critical theory, contemporary practice will all be embraced, along with pop culture references, basic mathematics and my work.
I have already started a blog in my myspace which may be found at www.myspace.com/everyonearoundhere , but, if i may, i would like to start with one a fresh. Some pieces of writing may come into play in this blog, or they may not.
Now to the question of the Art World. I say 'art world' but in my mind there are many art worlds, all clashing or complementing or blindly coexisting. The art world in which i see myself frightens me. I say names of artists and movements and ideas which some of my peers have never heard of and that scares me. Equally; I'm scared when someone mentions an artist whom i have never heard of. This puts me in mind of a quote from The Wind in the Willows.
" 'Beyond the Wild Wood comes the Wide World,' said the Rat. 'And that's something...' "
So, I see myself in a huge world, not lost, but a little sheepish - but what of the world in to which i wish to be belong? This world would be more or less as it is now with me as part of the establishment, but what does that mean? The Establishment. Those that have made it? Those who make a living through art or art criticism? I do not believe that i am the best person to comment on 'the establishment', because i am not, as of yet, sure exactly what it is, or what it does. Maybe on can only know what the establishment is in retrospect and, if this is the case, the establishment is only the people (or ideas) that have the strongest influence on later work.
In E H Gombrich's The Story of Art Gombrich refers to something like this in Chapter 28. This chapter, a later addition to the book, embraces how one cannot fully comprehend what is going on about them, nor how they them selves are influence the world. Kurt Schwitters, whom Gombrich refers to, seems to be an artist over looked in his time, but he and other Dada artists, have become for most the key source of artistic pursuit. My favourite art movements, the Fluxus movement and the minimal art of the nineteen sixties, are direct descendants of those first conceptual steps taken in the interwar years.
My starting point of reference to the contemporary art world shall be a word touched upon last term. I enjoy notions of nothing - a nothing that is, a nothing that was and a nothing that will be, and therefore the word which is choose is 'oblivion'.
I think I'm done.
R B Grange.
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