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the end of the chorus
the end of the audience
the end of intimacy
the end of theatre
the end of art
the end of the aura
the end of the copy
the end of means
the end of language
the end of parody
the end of vision
the end of Sokrates
the end of comedy
the end of orientalism
the end of materiality
the end of history
the end of lists
((note from the end session of Impossibility or Novelty? (re)Creating the Old and Consuming the New. – FU Berlin 9 Nov 2013))
Is it only my dysfunctional take on things that makes me see this as the ‘dream-work’ of the war on terror?
‘do you think that’s really bad?’
‘you’re just having a go at me coz I’m not poor anymore’
Culture Now
26/02/2013
Antony Gormley in conversation with Professor John Hutnyk and Hugh Brody on the subject of Gormley’s Fourth Plinth commission – ‘One & Other’ in 2009.
This piece by Philip Kennicott was published August 15 2012 here.
[read the whole text by clicking the link above – the part about Craig is here]: But what if such things fell into the hands of bad people? The answer to that is addressed in fascinating, elliptical ways by the most conceptually complicated project on display, “FireSale©TM,” by Colin Beatty and Craig Smith, who operate as the collective SmithBeatty. The project involves purchasing a gun, disassembling it and mailing its pieces to “33 stakeholders, including museum directors, art curators, artists, university professors, lawyers and a weapons manufacturer president.” The pieces are defined as shares in a corporation and beautifully packaged into sturdy cases. Recipients aren’t asked whether they want to participate, and when the collective issues a call on the shares — the gun pieces — the participants can ignore the whole thing or return the gun parts as asked, which are then reassembled.
The inevitable “missing” pieces are manufactured using a 3-D printer, a powerful technology that may at some point allow almost anything to be reproduced at home using digital design files readily found on the Internet. In the case of “FireSale©TM” — which includes extensive and beautifully rendered documentation of the project, a blog on which participants record their reactions, and the gun pieces (or their 3-D printer substitutes) — the missing gun elements, made from a fragile white plastic compound, are not functional.
The positive, practical elements of this technology are obvious: Surgical tools could be available in remote locations; easily acquired replacement parts might put an end to landfills stuffed with barely broken toasters. But there’s a deeper utopian element in how SmithBeatty conceived its game. By structuring the project as a corporation, the duo demonstrates how the complexity of human interaction may be the greatest brake on our collective suicide. The busy executive who tosses out his piece of this gun effectively stops the reassembly. Only complete participation — almost impossible to get in any project — can yield a functioning gun. At least for now, but perhaps not for long if 3-D technology is sufficiently advanced.
Manifest: Armed [was] at the Corcoran’s Gallery 31 space through Sept. 2. Call 202-639-1700 or visitwww.corcoran.org.
What other CCS graduates have been up to is here