Comments on: art and lacan symposium http://www.lacan.com/ArtAndLacan/?p=3 Art And Lacan Symposium is hosted by Chris Sands Mon, 09 Aug 2010 07:11:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Chris Sands http://www.lacan.com/ArtAndLacan/?p=3&cpage=1#comment-2345 Chris Sands Mon, 09 Aug 2010 07:11:14 +0000 http://www.lacan.com/ArtAndLacan/?p=3#comment-2345 The thought I had this morning is how is there ever time to put on shows any more and if there's increasingly no time these days, could somewhere like this symposium become a repository of sorts. A repository with the added advantage that psychoanalysis implies talking about, and the work of art implies talking about (a sorry state of affairs) warrants one last acting out. As for Kafka, the singing mouse and Zizek's suggestion (I think) that the viewer still makes a demand ... Fernando Pessoa wrote: I never wanted to be understood by other people. To be understood is akin to prostituting oneself. I prefer to be taken seriously for what I am not and to be, with decency and naturalness, ignored as a person. The thought I had this morning is
how is there ever time to put on shows
any more
and if there’s increasingly no time
these days,
could somewhere like this symposium
become a repository of sorts.

A repository
with the added advantage
that
psychoanalysis implies
talking about,
and the work of art
implies talking about (a sorry state of affairs)
warrants
one last acting out.

As for Kafka, the singing mouse and
Zizek’s suggestion
(I think)
that
the viewer
still
makes
a demand …
Fernando Pessoa wrote:

I never wanted to be understood by other people. To be understood is akin to prostituting oneself. I prefer to be taken seriously for what I am not and to be, with decency and naturalness, ignored as a person.

]]> By: Chris Sands http://www.lacan.com/ArtAndLacan/?p=3&cpage=1#comment-2338 Chris Sands Thu, 22 Jul 2010 20:34:57 +0000 http://www.lacan.com/ArtAndLacan/?p=3#comment-2338 Have been working on a long project that started before radiotherapy and I seem to be near an ending. At last I almost like photos in a persistent photo-text and for once I quite like something in the third of three videos (made to be shown in close proximity). What's terrible about all this is falling out with a close friend, more so than another operation coming up. Love is such a difficult thing! Have been working on a long project that started before radiotherapy and I seem to be near an ending. At last I almost like photos in a persistent photo-text and for once I quite like something in the third of three videos (made to be shown in close proximity). What’s terrible about all this is falling out with a close friend, more so than another operation coming up. Love is such a difficult thing!

]]> By: violet http://www.lacan.com/ArtAndLacan/?p=3&cpage=1#comment-2322 violet Tue, 29 Jun 2010 21:50:19 +0000 http://www.lacan.com/ArtAndLacan/?p=3#comment-2322 Yes, there is the cats and dogs- water falling into each bucket coming from another bucket close to the ceiling, all maneuvered by a machine Yes, there is the cats and dogs- water falling into each bucket coming from another bucket close to the ceiling, all maneuvered by a machine

]]> By: Chris Sands http://www.lacan.com/ArtAndLacan/?p=3&cpage=1#comment-2320 Chris Sands Wed, 23 Jun 2010 07:03:08 +0000 http://www.lacan.com/ArtAndLacan/?p=3#comment-2320 No sign of cats and dogs though! No sign of cats and dogs though!

]]> By: sol http://www.lacan.com/ArtAndLacan/?p=3&cpage=1#comment-2319 sol Tue, 22 Jun 2010 13:44:35 +0000 http://www.lacan.com/ArtAndLacan/?p=3#comment-2319 where they may fall? where they may fall?

]]> By: violet http://www.lacan.com/ArtAndLacan/?p=3&cpage=1#comment-2318 violet Sat, 19 Jun 2010 06:17:47 +0000 http://www.lacan.com/ArtAndLacan/?p=3#comment-2318 My ceiling looks a bit like that…just that my pots are up against the ceiling… My ceiling looks a bit like that…just that my pots are up against the ceiling…

]]> By: admin http://www.lacan.com/ArtAndLacan/?p=3&cpage=1#comment-2315 admin Wed, 16 Jun 2010 06:07:03 +0000 http://www.lacan.com/ArtAndLacan/?p=3#comment-2315 <img src="http://lacan.com/rain.jpg"> Rivane Neuenschwander
Rivane Neuenschwander

]]> By: sol http://www.lacan.com/ArtAndLacan/?p=3&cpage=1#comment-2313 sol Mon, 14 Jun 2010 12:32:05 +0000 http://www.lacan.com/ArtAndLacan/?p=3#comment-2313 I like that eg(g)o and the fall story ikkonn. I like the image much more now. Has anyone discovered anything more about this artist/ ? I like that eg(g)o and the fall story ikkonn.
I like the image much more now.
Has anyone discovered anything more about this artist/
?

]]> By: ikkonn http://www.lacan.com/ArtAndLacan/?p=3&cpage=1#comment-2312 ikkonn Fri, 11 Jun 2010 04:10:35 +0000 http://www.lacan.com/ArtAndLacan/?p=3#comment-2312 I would be interested to learn more about Rivane Neuenschwander's work as well. Although I won't presume to even begin to understand what this means to Neuenschwander, the title of the piece, "The Fall," says a lot to me. I am reminded of the fragility of the 'eg(go),' its precipitousness and precariousness...it rolls to one side or another by a jerk of the body, a push of the other, or the force of the wind, and it "falls"... it cracks as all 'eg(go)s are prone to, indeed, it seems that is its eventual purpose. The fall though can be messy but doesn't have to be. It depends on its state (could there be a hatchling?) or the condition of the environment, will it be used to nourish us? It can be a mess, but it can also give way to something different, better, and helpful. Much depends on perspective. What is important to me however, is the potential of that eg(go) on the spoon, and how much the eg(go) needs to be balanced like that on the spoon if it is to ever realize its potential. After all, without the fall, there would have never been no salvation for humankind... I would be interested to learn more about Rivane Neuenschwander’s work as well. Although I won’t presume to even begin to understand what this means to Neuenschwander, the title of the piece, “The Fall,” says a lot to me. I am reminded of the fragility of the ‘eg(go),’ its precipitousness and precariousness…it rolls to one side or another by a jerk of the body, a push of the other, or the force of the wind, and it “falls”… it cracks as all ‘eg(go)s are prone to, indeed, it seems that is its eventual purpose.

The fall though can be messy but doesn’t have to be. It depends on its state (could there be a hatchling?) or the condition of the environment, will it be used to nourish us? It can be a mess, but it can also give way to something different, better, and helpful. Much depends on perspective. What is important to me however, is the potential of that eg(go) on the spoon, and how much the eg(go) needs to be balanced like that on the spoon if it is to ever realize its potential. After all, without the fall, there would have never been no salvation for humankind…

]]> By: violet http://www.lacan.com/ArtAndLacan/?p=3&cpage=1#comment-2311 violet Fri, 11 Jun 2010 04:03:26 +0000 http://www.lacan.com/ArtAndLacan/?p=3#comment-2311 June 23, 2010 at the New Museum…Neuenschwander's "A Day Like Any Other, merges Brazilian Conceptualism interdisciplinary practice: I Wish Your Wish 2003; First Love 2010; and Walking in Circles (2000) will be installed at the church of Nosso Senhor do Bonfim in Salvador, Bahia. The faithful tie silk ribbons to their wrists and to the gates of the church - their wishes are granted when the ribbons wear away and fall off. For Wish Your Wish, hundreds of similar ribbons will be printed with visitors' wishes from past projects, and will hang from the gallery walls. Visitors may want to remove a ribbon, tie it to their wrist, and replace it with a new wish written on a slip of paper, as new ribbons and dreams get generated. For First Love, a police sketch artist will sit and listen to visitors describe the faces of their first loves; the sketch artist will then produce portraits of these "first loves" to adorn the walls of the gallery for the duration of the exhibition. Rain Rains 2002, is an environment of leaking buckets that are controlled from flooding by a Sisyphean recirculation in four-hour cycles. The second immersive work, The Conversation 2010, in homage to Francis Ford Coppola's revolutionary 1974 film, investigates the systematic invasion of privacy in an era of dangerously purposed technology… June 23, 2010 at the New Museum…Neuenschwander’s “A Day Like Any Other, merges Brazilian Conceptualism interdisciplinary practice:
I Wish Your Wish 2003; First Love 2010; and Walking in Circles (2000) will be installed at the church of Nosso Senhor do Bonfim in Salvador, Bahia.
The faithful tie silk ribbons to their wrists and to the gates of the church – their wishes are granted when the ribbons wear away and fall off.
For Wish Your Wish, hundreds of similar ribbons will be printed with visitors’ wishes from past projects, and will hang from the gallery walls. Visitors may want to remove a ribbon, tie it to their wrist, and replace it with a new wish written on a slip of paper, as new ribbons and dreams get generated.
For First Love, a police sketch artist will sit and listen to visitors describe the faces of their first loves; the sketch artist will then produce portraits of these “first loves” to adorn the walls of the gallery for the duration of the exhibition.
Rain Rains 2002, is an environment of leaking buckets that are controlled from flooding by a Sisyphean recirculation in four-hour cycles.
The second immersive work, The Conversation 2010, in homage to Francis Ford Coppola’s revolutionary 1974 film, investigates the systematic invasion of privacy in an era of dangerously purposed technology…

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