From
David Still
<ds@davidstill.org>
To
michel tabanou
<art.as.a.question@wanadoo.fr>
Re:
Marcel BROODTHAERS
MESSAGE
michel tabanou wrote: l'art c'est ce qui rend la vie plus intéressante que l'art Robert Filliou ART OUT OF ART art out of art - s'intéresse au contenu de l'art non pas pour en faire mais pour créer une nouvelle subjectivité - n'est pas dans la production obligatoire de produits d'art - est une attitude qui défie les lois formelles de sa propre armée de paradoxes - jette un regard ironique et critique sur les avatars de l’art moderne - utilise comme moyen d'action: sa voiture, la photographie, l'écrit, les installations, sa carte de crédit, la mise en situation, le mailing, la dérision, la culture, l'agriculture, la performance. -est une certaine Culture des Idées & une Idée certaine de la Culture & is art about art is art for art is outer art is something else is an artistic practice is an exposition is work is something to see is nothing to have is dada is international is how to look is what to know is trivial pursuit is serious is not important is an intellectual exercise is a visual experiment is to try something is to gamble is to open your mind is to forget about art is a joke is to learn something about art is to do nothing with art is fluxus is interdisciplinary is inside art is about art is just a souvenir is only an idea is a way to think about art is liberal is to be close to art is to be out of art is to have something to put in a box is to collect things is to organize knowledge is a network is representation is to keep the distance is thinking the past is oldfashioned is a game is to obstruct is modern is postmodern is a puzzle is scrabble is everything and nothing is to annoy comes as no surprise is indifferent is to amuse is to connect things is to connect people is contemporary is a dialogue is a target is nothing to eat is creation is a person is not a pipe is imagination is crosswords is crossroads is intelligent is a theory is to provocate is to combine things is no reason is a case is a cause is something to laugh about is something to cry at is something simple is something interesting is something to bother you is something to make you think is about the dimensions of art is a way to think is communication is philosophy is a question is to disturb you is a surprise is something different is a way to aprehend the world is an obstacle is something to make you smile is a way to see art is a way to understand art is a way to live with art is something to make you happy is using names is using significations is using words is using images is politics is to keep things moving is a trajectory is art-talk is to think art is to look at art is art out of art. (c) DG for art as a question jan 2002 >De : David Still
> and your point is what, exactly??? > or is it: art.as.a.question??? > pleeease ... !!! > all inexplicitness precludes ... ??? > is that the best you can do???