S: That great White Columns show. It happened with the devotion and commitment of Eugene Schwartz, as curator, and the churning openness of Bill Arning, the director. Together we produced a show of high intensity and polemics that jolted and bounced in all directions. Fortunately the appropriationists were hanging out at the time, which gave me a whole new space for potent dialogue. This was very crucial, as it allowed entry into the work by negative definition--a valid, powerful position. Then again, the appropriationists made me a precursor, although refusing to be jammed into that category immediately put me back in hot water. The dynamic difference was that Sherrie Levine, leading the pack, brilliantly used the copy as a political strategy, whereas the force of my work lies in the premise that thought is power. What is currently compelling is our pervasive cybernetic mode, which plunks copyright into mythology, makes origins a romantic notion, and pushes creativity outside the self. Remake, reuse, reassem ble, recombine-that's the way to go.
and appropriation. this is an appropriation page not an architecture page. right ?
I meant to talk about this interview but never got around to it. It was one of the more interesting things in those Artforum 80s issues, to me.
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- bill 1-07-2005 8:08 pm
and appropriation. this is an appropriation page not an architecture page. right ?
- bill 1-07-2005 8:11 pm [add a comment]
I meant to talk about this interview but never got around to it. It was one of the more interesting things in those Artforum 80s issues, to me.
- tom moody 1-07-2005 8:12 pm [add a comment]