Visual Arts, Columbia University, New York

This course examines ways of looking and ways of seeing, both personally & professionally as artists and in a larger cultural context. Through field trips to contemporary art and other cultural sites, conversations with visiting critical thinkers and practicioners, readings, discussions, and visual & written responses, we will examine how we look, think, act, create and respond--critically questioning our own artistic practices and ways of looking at the world.

Wednesday, March 27, 2013

A Provisionary and Immutable Manifesto


A Provisionary and Immutable Manifesto


The Ecstatic Nature
Severity
Craft
Duality, in all things.
Compassion.
EMOTION
JUSTICE
Making things that will last.
Being part of the solution, not of the problem
Nature as a gift, not as a right.
more ANIMALS and less HUmans.
Is it possible to make universal art or is everything at the service of and for the exclusive Pleasure of man?
Is our role then as dual- to destroy?
what is a museum?
What will the new museum be.  universal art
Art for the universe. is it that ridiculous
Shrinking. But expanding
Art that can ferry the soul
Inherent Beauty
Elegance
Nobility
Art as An evocation of a kiss with your eyes closed
Levitation into the works multiple layers
The Norns
Beauty
Tarot
Epona
Making an art that describes, evokes sensations
  arriving in the morning dusk, having the heat of the tropics open up and hit you like the first time you remember as a child that swift and unexpected gust of wind! When the heat, the moisture, the pressure, the Fragrance and the sweetness of the air hit you all at once.
The senses. Making art that you feel, not exclusive to a and the domain of intellectualization, of the White Cube
Anti-sterility, not a pro- chaos
---- the system
Let's make a new one that works better.
There is nothing like today.
Nature as art, the ultimate art. How to harness that. Fear of failing to do this.
A trembling art.
Fragility.
Yes to an informed patron. Yes to a contemporary connoisseur.  Of anything
Making an art that feels like a drop of water, icy, hitting the back of the throat.

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