fulgurite
this is a good interview. I saw AM's fulgurite show and left feeling sort of sad and beleagured. I like it better now. Although I still feel that the undertaking of mass production is really limited for artists. He shoots for a run of 10,000. I understand this number - it's a sort of watershed of viability. For business it means you might just be able to break through. 10,000 is like a foot in the door. But for an artist this kind of quantity is the epitome, a one-off, and so the content of it being mass produced gets folded back into it being unique. Only now you've got a massive storage problem.
I like this quote from the article a lot: "I’ve tried to compare so-called art objects to other objects that aren’t art objects — but which are objects that seem to mediate mystery, discovery, enchantment, emotion, or symbolic meaning. You see, I have very personal troubles with all this categorization of objects into better objects or worse objects, art and non-art. I find the whole process tortuous and shaming."
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- bill 11-04-2003 12:56 am
this is a good interview. I saw AM's fulgurite show and left feeling sort of sad and beleagured. I like it better now. Although I still feel that the undertaking of mass production is really limited for artists. He shoots for a run of 10,000. I understand this number - it's a sort of watershed of viability. For business it means you might just be able to break through. 10,000 is like a foot in the door. But for an artist this kind of quantity is the epitome, a one-off, and so the content of it being mass produced gets folded back into it being unique. Only now you've got a massive storage problem.
I like this quote from the article a lot: "I’ve tried to compare so-called art objects to other objects that aren’t art objects — but which are objects that seem to mediate mystery, discovery, enchantment, emotion, or symbolic meaning. You see, I have very personal troubles with all this categorization of objects into better objects or worse objects, art and non-art. I find the whole process tortuous and shaming."
- sally 11-04-2003 1:04 pm [add a comment]