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water, dell crt case, lcd, aquarium pump, plastic flowers, water, youtube mermaid video
2012

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In his film Down by Law (1986), Jim Jarmusch delivered a highly precise picture of the paradigm shift that is now becoming reality: the change from the enclosing milieu of the disciplinary society (Michel Foucault) to the flexible modulations of the society of control (Gilles Deleuze). Jarmusch’s cult movie shows three smalltime crooks—Jack, Zack, and Bob—who happen to be sharing a prison cell in New Orleans. Zack (Tom Waits) is an unemployed DJ, Jack (John Lurie) an occasional pimp, and Bob (Roberto Benigni) an honest, kindly if somewhat naive Italian who is doing time for manslaughter. They jointly manage to escape and via the swamps of Louisiana head for a new life. Along with their flight through the swampland, the “window scene” is especially significant for our context. Roberto “Bob” Benigni is chalking a window onto the cell wall, and because his English is rather shaky he asks Jack whether one says, “I look at the window,” or “I look out of the window.” Jack chuckles at the Italian’s question, but in view of their hopeless situation his response is cynical: “Well, in this case I guess you would say I look at the window.” Today, the scene can be read as an uncanny pre-anticipation of current developments.

Am I Curating? an exhibition with William Leavitt - Jon Cates (2012)

Instruction set for participation in exhibition

Step 1. Download original rework: HTTP://SYSTEMSAPPROACH.NET/IMG/IAC_WILLIAMLEAVITT.PNG

Step 2. Insert Media into transparent area.

Step 3. Upload to Tumblr. 

Step 4. Tag “I am curating.”

Step 5. Am I curating?

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1. Aesthetics Versus Poetics

- We have been contemplating Art under the same aesthetic rubric since Kant and the Romantic era

- Life is inherently more interesting, beautiful, sublime, etc. than art

- Poetics rather than Aesthetics (Aesthetics is spectatorship)

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(Source: louisdoulas)

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