Bad at Sports has posted the Painters/Painting panel discussion held at their behest last month in NYC. Participants include Tom Sanford, Kamrooz Aram, Holly Coulis, David Humphrey, Dike Blair and Deborah Kass.
And a few other links:
Following up the post on Robert Barnes new show at Corbett vs. Dempsey, here is a 2001 interview with Barnes discussing the good old days, specifically his contacts with Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst and Matta.
New Dana Schutz interview at Art Info.
Christian Viveros-Faune on Jules de Balincourt’s new work.
There’s a new-ish interview with Sangram Majumdar at the Jerusalem Studio School’s blog. There are a lot of interviews with SM around the artblogs but this one’s notable for having a lot of studio shots and discussion of materials and methods.
Buck up buttercup meaning is dead…guess its been dead for like 5000 years now. This podcast sounds like a verbal bar fight with plush toys in parts. Love it!
Man, a great idea for a new blog just popped into my head…”Cultural Coroners”, dedicated to declaring “dead” any and all human behaviors, needs, desires, etc. Sort of like a nihilistic “Stuff White People Like”. Whatever you like…it’s dead! Whoever you are…it’s dead! It’s dead, it’s dead!
(Sorry, Russell Maycumber, wasn’t trying to disrespect, just a silly idea that popped in to my head. I do really like your metaphoric description of the tone of the BaS podcast.)
It is ironic(irony is dead) that I found enough meaning in the idea that meaning was dead to post it on someones blog.
Actually, there’s a lot of cleverness in that.
A few things that the conversations around here (which are currently seeming to be a thing of the past if we don’t want to keep invoking the “…is dead” thing) have been good at is avoiding all of that French school pessimism. Nobody goes on all that much about things being dead, about meaninglessness, even “irony” all that much.
But I really like thinking about how you’ve set it up:
There is no meaning.
I find meaning.
Like it doesn’t matter whether meaning exists or not. It doesn’t really make any difference to anybody. Finding meaning, however, does makes a difference. And people, do find meaning, so let’s go with it.
What a great conversation. It seems to me that meaning can never be dead because in every encounter, we create it for ourselves, which implies that the meaning is not in the object, but in the observer. Meaninglessness = Disengagement.
zow! good point.