Comments on: Knight Arts Partnership: Bas Fisher Invitational http://www.artlurker.com/2008/12/knight-arts-partnership-bas-fisher-invitational/ A Miami based contemporary art newsletter / blog Sat, 18 May 2013 12:48:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Richard Haden http://www.artlurker.com/2008/12/knight-arts-partnership-bas-fisher-invitational/comment-page-1/#comment-6121 Richard Haden Mon, 22 Dec 2008 03:22:15 +0000 http://www.artlurker.com/?p=945#comment-6121 Dumpster diving. Now, that's an adventurist activity that so many have forgotten how valuable and discerning the act, of reclaiming, can be. It is the very simple and eloquent act of choosing and jurying through the debris and waste of a container...that requires a weird skill--to sift through the strange mix of Occidental and beyond. It takes a special kind of humor to be the judge of Divine detritus. And as an abnormal archaeologist of hyper-consuming society, one can discern by the revelation and expression from a sun baked tropical parched shadow of a figure (Jim) the pedestrian, a terrestrial consuming critic. With a mediated knee jerk reaction to the colonization of Capital by built in obsolescence and over produced relics of desire, the Artist can comment on and on with an endless supply of object matter... It is with the "Waste(d) Manage(d)ment" of recycling and reusing, as we should be better at...that we can imagine an early hint, lets say, from the proto assemblages of Raushenberg's vacuous combines, to a more focused contemporary critical use of art(i)facts made of discarded [Baroque] and "detourned" [Bricolage] as communication. It is with that poetic prose of assemblage that art can rearrange it's found object anew and make it all into a greater syntax of critical trope...that things once separated by brand are artfully regrouped with the occasional applied Meme or abstract open ended contemplation of form that I see Drain and others as possibly the newly emerging, contemporary superhero of our time, ripe for a newgraphic novel of reuse of refuse: The Drain Factor--perfecting a craft that drains not the grid and makes economical the use of natural resources. I'm inspired and I agree, your pallet should remain unlocked...as the ready made is always better remade--useful. Dumpster diving. Now, that’s an adventurist activity that so many have forgotten how valuable and discerning the act, of reclaiming, can be. It is the very simple and eloquent act of choosing and jurying through the debris and waste of a container…that requires a weird skill–to sift through the strange mix of Occidental and beyond. It takes a special kind of humor to be the judge of Divine detritus. And as an abnormal archaeologist of hyper-consuming society, one can discern by the revelation and expression from a sun baked tropical parched shadow of a figure (Jim) the pedestrian, a terrestrial consuming critic. With a mediated knee jerk reaction to the colonization of Capital by built in obsolescence and over produced relics of desire, the Artist can comment on and on with an endless supply of object matter… It is with the “Waste(d) Manage(d)ment” of recycling and reusing, as we should be better at…that we can imagine an early hint, lets say, from the proto assemblages of Raushenberg’s vacuous combines, to a more focused contemporary critical use of art(i)facts made of discarded [Baroque] and “detourned” [Bricolage] as communication. It is with that poetic prose of assemblage that art can rearrange it’s found object anew and make it all into a greater syntax of critical trope…that things once separated by brand are artfully regrouped with the occasional applied Meme or abstract open ended contemplation of form that I see Drain and others as possibly the newly emerging, contemporary superhero of our time, ripe for a newgraphic novel of reuse of refuse: The Drain Factor–perfecting a craft that drains not the grid and makes economical the use of natural resources.

I’m inspired and I agree, your pallet should remain unlocked…as the ready made is always better remade–useful.

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