Good Art of the Day (with Quote)
Joel Holmberg: Scratching Post Vortex and rear-screen-projected sculpture/installation based on same.
"One could criticize young artists in America for attacking trivial subjects when the world is busy coping with the misfortunes inflicted by their country of origin. Yet the solipsism of Scratching Post Vortex doesn't necessarily respect national boundaries--the work's debased Pop values indict all of Western consumer culture, those complicit with Empire or aspiring to be like it. The piece suggests a despairing nexus of humans and what's left of the animal kingdom--overbred domestic pets in a species-depleted world spastically scratching out their frustrations as if on treadmills. Treadmills that grow to encompass other treadmills in a hellish recursive universe of landfill-bound products." --Theodor Adorno
how moribund!!!
You mean morbid?
nope, definitely moribund!
damn, i had to look up both to see if adorno was still alive somehow AND the definition of moribund.
Adorno's presence explained.
I think the word mordant is more appropriate, or droll, since the Adorno piece is fiction and I refuse to accept that my jokes are dead or dying.
yes, mordant, that's much better.
Tom, Thanks for posting this. That quote really made me smile.
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Good Art of the Day (with Quote)
Joel Holmberg: Scratching Post Vortex and rear-screen-projected sculpture/installation based on same.
"One could criticize young artists in America for attacking trivial subjects when the world is busy coping with the misfortunes inflicted by their country of origin. Yet the solipsism of Scratching Post Vortex doesn't necessarily respect national boundaries--the work's debased Pop values indict all of Western consumer culture, those complicit with Empire or aspiring to be like it. The piece suggests a despairing nexus of humans and what's left of the animal kingdom--overbred domestic pets in a species-depleted world spastically scratching out their frustrations as if on treadmills. Treadmills that grow to encompass other treadmills in a hellish recursive universe of landfill-bound products." --Theodor Adorno
- tom moody 5-19-2007 9:10 pm
how moribund!!!
- charles (guest) 5-20-2007 2:31 am
You mean morbid?
- tom moody 5-20-2007 3:19 am
nope, definitely moribund!
- charles (guest) 5-20-2007 4:47 am
damn, i had to look up both to see if adorno was still alive somehow AND the definition of moribund.
- martin (guest) 5-20-2007 5:40 am
Adorno's presence explained.
I think the word mordant is more appropriate, or droll, since the Adorno piece is fiction and I refuse to accept that my jokes are dead or dying.
- tom moody 5-20-2007 8:41 am
yes, mordant, that's much better.
- charles (guest) 5-20-2007 8:24 pm
Tom, Thanks for posting this. That quote really made me smile.
- Joel (guest) 5-23-2007 9:17 am