Minimalism which is the continuity of constructivism and where the notion of beauté́ is abolished, it does not exist/no longer exists, use of industrial materials, the artist does not create by his work, he only gives directives, it is industrially made and he does not intervene at all during its creation most of the time. In spite of the desire of minimalist artists to be neutral, they will never succeed in doing so because art cannot be neutral.
"Refers to a trend in contemporary art which reduces the work to forms of extreme geometric simplification, as well as to elementary modalities of material or colour". (Larousse dictionary)
"Minimal art is based on several principles, such as repetition (the series), combinations and variations of abstract forms. The structures are elementary and made with simple materials. The works are generally monochrome". (site of Grand Palais, Paris)
Robert Morris "Box with the sound of its own making" 1961, a wooden box that diffuses the sound of its own making, a link between the object of manufacture and the finished object.
Dan Flavin and his installation in memory of Tatlin
As Nietzsche said, the state is a sham, a lure, it lures the people because it is cold, a lie, the state would qualify itself as representative of the people and the citizen when in reality it would rather mean the death of the people. The domestication of the people, the body and instinct.
I will take up this quote from the film/documentary "A nos corps défendants" de 2020 (Our Defending Bodies 2020) "There are bodies that are damaged and there are bodies that are eliminated. Officially they have abolished the death penalty, but in the shadow of the Republic, people are still murdered. The state hates bodies that are not controlled and minds that are not controlled. So rather than granting freedom or admitting one's impotence, they must be neutralised. There is no need for the guillotine or the gallows, since there are the police". Talking about the problems of violence and abuse by the police in France, in total freewheeling, the people are beaten up with impunity by the forces of law and order, the individual then becomes a thing, "reified", he is no longer a person. The state wants to be true, but it keeps individuals away from things as such, one is no longer an individual, one becomes a mass to be controlled.
The problems of the last few years and even today with police violence, the police, the watchdog of the state, are the problem. In Belgium as well as in France (I don't know if this is the case of police abuse in Portugal... she seems calm from what I have seen, maybe I am wrong).
- Judith Martin, book Miss Manners Good manners simulate what we are, like masks putting at a distance who we are, a kind of hypocrisy created to make living together as pleasant and liveable as possible? By distancing ourselves from ourselves through social behaviours that frame our impulses...
- Baudrillard and his analysis of sign culture The simulacrum is the product of simulation: it explains that more and more simulacrums are being built in order to take us away from reality. For example, advertising, which absorbs modes of expression, a real if-mulacre of language, a lure of it to the point of totally distorting it. He will compare advertising to pornography as destructive and as denaturalizing as advertising, a fiction hypertrophied from reality.
(Tentei traduzir isto para português o melhor que pude com o app DeepL)
Como disse Nietzsche, o Estado é uma farsa, uma isca, atrai o povo porque é frio, uma mentira, o Estado qualificar-se-ia a si próprio como representante do povo e do cidadão quando na realidade preferiria significar a morte do povo. A domesticação do povo, do corpo e do instinto.
Vou retomar esta citação do filme/documentário "A nos corps défendants" de 2020 (Os Nossos Corpos em Defesa 2020) "Há corpos que são danificados e há corpos que são eliminados. Oficialmente aboliram a pena de morte, mas à sombra da República, as pessoas continuam a ser assassinadas. O Estado odeia corpos que não são controlados e mentes que não são controladas. Assim, em vez de conceder liberdade ou admitir a impotência de alguém, eles devem ser neutralizados. Não há necessidade da guilhotina ou da forca, uma vez que há a polícia". Falando dos problemas de violência e abuso pela polícia em França, em total liberdade, as pessoas são espancadas com impunidade pelas forças da lei e da ordem, o indivíduo torna-se então uma coisa, "reificada", já não é uma pessoa. O Estado quer ser verdadeiro, mas mantém os indivíduos afastados das coisas como tal, já não se é um indivíduo, torna-se uma massa a ser controlada.
Os problemas dos últimos anos e ainda hoje com a violência policial, a polícia, o cão de guarda do Estado, são o problema. Tanto na Bélgica como em França (não sei se este é o caso de abuso policial em Portugal... ela parece calma pelo que vi, talvez eu esteja errado).
- Judith Martin, livro Miss Manners As boas maneiras simulam o que somos, como máscaras que colocam à distância quem somos, uma espécie de hipocrisia criada para tornar a vida em conjunto tão agradável e habitável quanto possível? Distanciando-nos de nós próprios através de comportamentos sociais que enquadram os nossos impulsos...
- Baudrillard e a sua análise da cultura dos sinais O simulacro é o produto da simulação: explica que cada vez mais simulacros estão a ser construídos de modo a afastar-nos da realidade. Por exemplo, a publicidade, que absorve modos de expressão, um verdadeiro if-mulacre de linguagem, um engodo ao ponto de o distorcer totalmente. Ele irá comparar a publicidade à pornografia tão destrutiva e desnaturalizante como a publicidade, uma ficção hipertrofiada da realidade.
Of course they are not even presented anymore, the Memes of the internet, "mimesis" in Greek, imitation. They can be seen everywhere, especially on the networks, and are mainly transmitted digitally; it is a real mass humorous phenomenon to which some people even devote a cult, sometimes to the point of being sickly. "Visual jokes": They take up elements of life common to a group of individuals, they take up a situation where one can identify oneself, staged, a cliché of a situation experienced or seen. They would be like a mise en abime of life.
Waking up as a meme-hero | Andras Arato | TEDxKyiv Ted Talks where Andras Arato, an engineer by training, has become an icon of the same, finds pictures of him all over the internet, he is now known worldwide, he explains his reaction when he discovered that his royalty free pictures in a stock image were used in many different ways and sometimes even offensively.
During his photo shoot the photographer asked him to smile, but the internet users felt that his smile was not very sincere and hid a kind of hidden pain, hence the name "Hide the pain Harold", an example of the same: He explains that the story of "Hide the pain Harold" is only a role-playing game, it is not really him and that it is the other internet users who assigned him this role.
Shakespeare will say that the world is a play and that we are all actors in it and that his is to be "Hide the pain Harold". "The meme is an idea or concept proposed by Richard Dawkins in The Replicator Selfish Gene, comparable in this respect to genes, but responsible for the evolution of certain animal behaviours and cultures". How memes become memes: a picture, a photo, something graphic, adding text, image caption often with a funny character and finally posting it on social networks (facebook, twitter, 9gag ect). We are constantly exposed to the same, they live and spread through technology.
They can also share knowledge and experiences that many people can enjoy, that you can identify with and that you are not alone. The meme is a sociological, economic, political support, it has a huge aspect and can be declined in many possible ways. It can be good, bad or even playful.
Simulacrum: that which has only the appearance (of what it claims to be).
The Holy Shroud of Turin as an example of "simulacrum", the believers managed to circumvent the ban on representation in order to be able to represent Christ or his "imprint" and represent God despite the bible ban and the risk of falling into idolatry then forbidden, the Christians then succeeded in being able to "represent" not God himself but his incarnation which is Jesus, they would then have found a solution to represent the unthinkable: the representation of God, through the imprint of Christ, his (supposed) trace.
Warhol, who used photography and silk-screen printing to make the "unique" work of art accessible, made the work of art lose its meaning through this repetitive character. As Warhol grew up in a very religious family ( His parents were devout Byzantine Catholics who regularly attended mass and retained much of their Slovak culture and heritage while living in one of Pittsburgh's eastern European ethnic enclaves.) He came into contact with the icons very early on (which had a didactic purpose, as all Christians knew the message spread by these images). Warhol will identify the images that convey the American myth, symbols shared by all Americans, coca cola, comic book heroes, American stars of his time (of course the one that is no longer even presented: Ma- rylin Monroe). Symbols framed by him like framed saints, icons. He will question the uniqueness of the work of art, he will democratize it in a way. "Campbell's Soup Cans", 32 cans of Campbells soup displayed next to each other have a strong resemblance for example with the Iconostases of the Orthodox churches.
Pop Art (and Neo-Geo) movement will activate the dynamics of dissolution of the original by the multiplicity there is then no longer a relationship between the original and its copy. Claes Oldenburg, who hunts down the icons of mass culture, desacralises monumental images, creating a huge gap between reality and representation.
Robert Rauschenberg will also insist on this multiplication by the serigraphy, in particular where he will criticise the press and society where one is constantly bombarded with images, every day the disasters are repeated; by this redundancy the catastrophes become almost banal.Signs, 1970: fragments of photographs of the army depicted, of an African-American man stained with blood, of Martin Luther King in his coffin, Buzz Aldrin or Neil Amstrong(?) on the moon.
Roland Barthes will say of photography (book La chambre claire) that one cannot deny that when one looks at a photo the subject is in front of the object, it is therefore only the spectrum of the object, the photograph has only the appearance of the person represented... The image in front of us would then be only a simulacrum and we insist on its disappearance.
"Born on February 10, 1942 is an American artist, one of the central figures of conceptual art. He was born in the Bronx, New York. For Weiner, text is the best form of presentation of his work. "
Through typography and layout, his work is composed of real visual scores. Drawn by these pieces of phrase, the spectator ventures towards a new relationship with the work which is no longer a question of seeing but of conceiving.
What is "watching"? Why do we look at certain things? What is a point of view?
« Pour regarder, il faut un point de vue. Tout point de vue limite la vue et, sans point de vue, on ne voit rien du tout. » "To look, you need a point of view. Any point of view limits the view, and without a point of view you see nothing at all. " Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Constituição classificação mediação uma estrutura imagens - un tout -
vernacular and vehicular languages
To have a second thought un paradigme nouveau
Instant de processus et de création rien n'est mauvais
constelação une infinité - infinidade en soi, le soi
ser l'universalisme
rethinking creating links and connections
nothing is really immutable
le langage jamais n'est inconscient language is never unconscious
Almada, septembre 2020
I do not like to put dots at the end of sentences, it is something too cold for me
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I'm used to working with keywords, posts-it, things that you write and then forget I group everything together and make something coherent (in my opinion)
