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William Powhida’s “Surviving the Art World Using the Art of Sorcery” Video Now Online
For those of you who could not attend William Powhida’s May 14th performance/lecture, “Surviving the Art World Using the Art of Sorcery,” at Hyperallergic HQ, the video of the event is now online on Hyperallergic’s Blip.TV channel, Hyperallergic TV.
You can also download the program (and all future episodes) via iTunes.
From the talk:
“Magic, sometimes known as “sorcery,” is the process of consciousness manipulation…to achieve a desired result, usually by techniques described in various conceptual systems…”
The talk is wildly meta regarding the art world, but just the fact that he forced the audience to make salt-circles around their chairs kept me with it till the end. Still, his point holds: ritual (process/protocol) offer an alternate mode of thinking, another tool in the toolbox beside rationality or capricious “inspiration.” Also, in his post on the subject (well…on the subject of an essay critical of his presentation), Powhida hits on one of the core themes of atemporality:
…Falvey ultimately suggests that the solution to dealing with the end of post-modernism may not to re-think Modernism again, but that “the only way out may be in.” This is the tricky part, because I agree with her that the critical tropes of post-modernism long ago transcended the reaction to Modernism and have become productive ways of working that aren’t simply ironic reversals. Post-modernism has gone way past David Salle’s juxtapositions of pop imagery and ab-ex paintings, Schnabel’s shattered plates, or Koons’ floating basketballs. Now they look comically simple compared to the level of engagement artists have taken with ideas of uncertainty and narrative content…
”[T]he level of engagement artists have taken with ideas of uncertainty and narritive content.” That’s atemporality in a nutshell.
(via hyperallergic)
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William Powhida’s “Surviving the Art World Using the Art of Sorcery” Video Now Online
For those of you who could not attend William Powhida’s May 14th performance/lecture, “Surviving the Art World Using the Art of Sorcery,” at Hyperallergic HQ, the video of the event is now online on Hyperallergic’s Blip.TV channel, Hyperallergic TV.
You can also download the program (and all future episodes) via iTunes.
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From the talk:
“Magic, sometimes known as “sorcery,” is the process of consciousness manipulation…to achieve a desired result, usually by techniques described in various conceptual systems…”
The talk is wildly meta regarding the art world, but just the fact that he forced the audience to make salt-circles around their chairs kept me with it till the end. Still, his point holds: ritual (process/protocol) offer an alternate mode of thinking, another tool in the toolbox beside rationality or capricious “inspiration.” Also, in his post on the subject (well…on the subject of an essay critical of his presentation), Powhida hits on one of the core themes of atemporality:
…Falvey ultimately suggests that the solution to dealing with the end of post-modernism may not to re-think Modernism again, but that “the only way out may be in.” This is the tricky part, because I agree with her that the critical tropes of post-modernism long ago transcended the reaction to Modernism and have become productive ways of working that aren’t simply ironic reversals. Post-modernism has gone way past David Salle’s juxtapositions of pop imagery and ab-ex paintings, Schnabel’s shattered plates, or Koons’ floating basketballs. Now they look comically simple compared to the level of engagement artists have taken with ideas of uncertainty and narrative content…
”[T]he level of engagement artists have taken with ideas of uncertainty and narritive content.” That’s atemporality in a nutshell.
(via hyperallergic)](http://www.tumblr.com/photo/1280/powhida/961474762/1/tumblr_l6wwx30kAK1qzaos7 "http://powhida.tumblr.com/post/961474762/ekstasis-notational-artlistpro-william")
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