MINIMALISM AND THE RHETORIC OF POWER

Based on a text by Anne C. Chave

 

 

The face of mimimalism,

is the the face of capital,

the face of authority,

the face of the father.

 

Minimalism and the rhetoric of power.

 

Nothing exceeds the power of discourse,

and nothing escapes from the discourse of power.

The face of capital,

the face of authority,

the face of the father.

 

Minimalism and the rhetoric of power.

OH yeah the rhetoric of power.

 

Money, the phallus, the consept

as operators of  meaning.

Art that generated a sphere,

above all personal feeling.

 

The most wonderful thing,

made of a single stone.

The lenght and hight which were the same.

And the whole a single block.

 

Fluorescent light in a tube,

Its all so plainly phallic.

The spesific angle he poised the fixture,

represents the erect cock.

 

Nothing exceeds the power of discourse,

and nothing escapes from the discourse of power.

The face of capital,

the face of authority,

Oh yeah the face of the father.

 

Minimalism and the rhetoric of power.

 




Beuys (The Plane Crash in Crimera)

Based on the text ”A Lament for Joseph Beuys” by Alain Borer

 


Beuys, Beuys, Beuys


Joseph Beuys

Born in Cleves in 1921

Famous for the Rituals

In the Work he`s done

 

Everybody is an Artist

Was his Theory

Everybody was accepted

To his Art Academy

 

Beuys Beuys Beuys- Teaching was his Passion

Beuys Beuys Beuys- Gave lectures to a Hare

Beuys Beuys Beuys-  making Art that progressed

Beuys Beuys Beuys- Had Fat on a Chair

 

He needs to create a Concept

Of  Thought-Power, Will-Power, Power of sensibility

He is working with the Poor Materials

Yeah, The Poor Materials

Felt & Fat & Honey & Blood

Sulphur, Copper & Bones

& Dead Animals, Yeah

Dead Animals

 

Beuys Beuys Beuys- & Honey & Blood & Copper & Bones

Beuys Beuys Beuys- & Felt & Fat & Dead Animals

 

Everything is in a state of Change

Beuys` Sculptures too

His work of Art is in a state of Flux

Questioning what Sculptures can do

 

Beuys Beuys Beuys- Teaching was his Passion

Beuys Beuys Beuys- Gave lectures to a Hare

Beuys Beuys Beuys-  making Art that progressed

Beuys Beuys Beuys- Had Fat on a Chair

ART AFTER PHILOSOPHY AND AFTER

Based on a text by: Joseph Kosuth

 

Formalist criticism is no more than analyses of the physical attributes of particular objects, witch happens to exist in a morphological context.

 

But this doesn’t add any knowledge to our understanding of nature of function of art.

Nor does it comment on whether or not the objects analyzed are works of art.

Since formalist critics always bypass the conceptual elements in works of art.

Exactly why they don’t comment on the conceptual elements in works of art

is precisely because formalist art becomes art

only by virtue of it’s resemblance to earlier works of art.

 

The one thing to say about art

is that it is one thing.

Art is art as art

and everything else is everything else.

Art as art is nothing but art.

Art is not what is not art.

 

The strongest objection one can raise against a morphological justification for traditional art

is that morphological notions of art

implied a concept of options in art.

But such a concept of the of the nature of art

makes it indeed impossible, to question the nature of art.

And this questioning of the nature of art

is a very important concept in understanding the function of art

 

The one thing to say about art

is that it is one thing.

Art is art as art

and everything else is everything else.

Art as art is nothing but art.

Art is not what is not art.

 

Art’s only claim is for art. Art is the definition of art.

 

THE LAW AND THE VISIBLE HAND,

PAINTING FROM HIGH ART TO THE FETISH OF BEAT  

Based on a lecture by Stian Grøgaard

 

 

Theres`s an arm, there`s a hand, there`s a Law

The historic Law of Modern Art.

 

The law and the visible hand,

Painting from high art to the fetish of beat.

 

Postmodernism is the pleasure of repeating.

Postmodernism is the pleasure of repeating. Ahh.

The pleasure of repeating. Oh ahh

The pleasure of repeating. Oh yeah so good.

 

The law and the visible hand,

Painting from high art to the fetish of beat.

The law and the visible hand,

Painting from high art to the fetish of beat.

 

Now we are repeating in digital image.

Now we are repeating in digital image.

We are repeating in digital image.

Repeating in digital image.

 

The law and the visible hand,

Painting from high art to the fetish of beat.

 

MEDIA HOT AND COLD.                   
Based on a text by Marshall McLuhan

 

 

When Information is Little

And Definition is Low.

Cool Media is the TV Show.

 

When Definition is High

And bring you a lot Information.

Hot Media is the Radio Station

 

Hot Media, High Definition.

Hot Media, Low Participation

 

Cool Media, Low Definition.

Cool Media, High Participation.

 

The hot, hot, hot, Form excludes

The cool, cool, cool Form includes.

 

The hot Media Paper is unifying the Spaces.

The cool Media Stone is unifying the Ages.

 

When the Media of writing.

went hot on Print intensity.

It led us to Nationalism

and War in the sixteenth Century.

 

Hot Media, High Definition.

Hot Media, Low Participation

 

Cool Media, Low Definition.

Cool Media, High Participation.

 

The hot, hot, hot, Form excludes

The cool, cool, cool Form includes.

 

We turn from the Content of Message to study total Effect.

The Effect of electric Technology

led us at first to Anxiety.

Now it leads us to Boredom.

Now it leads us to Apathy.

THE CULTURE INDUSTRY 
(ENLIGHTMENT AS MASS-DECEPTION)

Based on a text by: Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer.

 

 

Art for the masses has Destroyed the Dream.

The Consciousness of God

Is replaced by the Production Team.

 

Love is reduced to Romance

in the Cultur Industry.

Happiness is reduced to Laughter

in the pleasure Industry.

 

Through the filter of the Culture Industry.

the only thing acceptable is meaninglessness.

The laughing Audience is a Parody.

the Industry makes mockery of Seriousness.

 

Works of Art is unashamed Aesthetics.

The culture industry is prudish Pornography.

Works of Art is Style with Ideology.

The Culture Industry is Asthetic Barbarity

 

Art for the masses has Destroyed the Dream.

The Consciousness of God

Is replaced by the Production Team.

 

Love is reduced to Romance

in the Cultur Industry.

Happiness is reduced to Laughter

in the pleasure Industry.