Modernist Primitivism our humanity took us in the wrong direction. Our modernism, our concept of utopian society, city life, progression removes us so far from our virtues. I am being removed from my self being filled with so many things that cloud my mind distracting me from a path placed before me by an unseen and often neglected hand. I have come to see the reverse of tolerance. People tolerate the things they choose to. Through toleration we come to find appreciation in our separateness in the way that we stand out, unique individuals amongst a sea of similarity. Perhaps our toleration stems from our own desire to be excepted and to become anonymous but to fit into our niche to be respected. The twist is the darkness ever present picking at our thoughts changing our perspectives, chasing out of our heads the innocence of being separate from the beast which compels us to be how it sees fittest or the most desirable. Note here that i must use words like darkness and beast to represent this something that is not modernism but is coupled with it, intermingled, sinking in its tenticles and infusing itself in a parasitic way into the host of positive spirit and human energy. The big city comes with a view of itself based on values created to perpetuate the mass. The metropolitan comes complete in chic. Well tailored and carrying itself in an aristocratic way. The wisdom generated by the harshness of this soulless and blause environment gives this particular human power (at least in thought) over its "dumber" less educated parrallel which I am going to here label as 'Savages." Its important to keep the gears cranking and turning this is propagated by the media which is suppllied to build an entire economic system on falsity. We can all see it. Actually, I am afraid that all we cannot see it. There is a calvinist idea that basically the whole John Calvin movement centered around which was predestination. Some humans are meant to be saved and some are meant to burn its the separating of chaf from grain. It sometimes seems so apparent. In Isaiah around chapter forty-three it talks about the good of the servant who is able to see and is bothered by those who proudly wear their veils with closed eyes moving in unison and chattering imitations of wisdom. They chop down a tree which has lived for years. They make lumber from it and build a fire then praise the fire for the warmth it provides then taking silver and gold from the earth they melt it in the fire and shape it in the form of a human(reality we shape it into Mcdonalds signs and concrete and little peices of colored paper. Its always been about replacing God thats the whole point of humanism, to deify ourselves or our creation. We want control of the thing controlling everything the further we evolve the more we build the fewer baby steps still remain between us and the prospect set by the serpent in the Garden of Eden that if we would eat from this tree of knowledge then we could become like him. So after that religious bird walk, If you are trying to figure out how this is relevant to modernist primitivism then please proceed to room g 604. Gauguin leaves for Tahiti in 1891. In the jungle City culture is only a by product of the western idea of conquest and claiming possessions which i guess originated in Egypt thousands of years ago. So follow me in a modern world the only thing left or even vaguely important is to possess the game is to possess more than the person standing beside you. Realistically the city life forces this standard upon you with the exception of those who refuse the concept of this ever expanding mass of concrete always forcing the "less sophisticated savage ever to the outskirts to carve out the next piece of gold which once discovered will serve as grounds for the next rape of the natural world to create space for our ever feeding parasitic virtual modern world. setting yourself apart from this world is met with the highest of opposition but unlike the self or God ordained opposition to take part in the world. Worldliness calls and nature yields. The intrigue of primitivism lies in its separation from any system resembling control. Its almost a desire for anarchy, a desire to be truly free to live life in any way that one feels compelled to partake of. To be an artist one cannot allow themselves to be caught up in the flow. The savage is an individual, savages are individuals relying on each other for protection, safety, food, shelter, all the things that modern society claims to hand out to you as long as you have some way of obtaining possesions which serve to perpetuate the system. The Savage's system contains no way of feeding a beast such as the city. The savages system relies only on the ability to be small, moveable and adaptable. The City situation is about duration about lasting about growing roots about using the right amount of recourse to jump start a self sustaining environment. everyday for the Savage may be his last this gives a perspective on the importance of every moment of every meal, every action every conversation. The non savage holds no desire for life on that level he drifts through life following signs that say stop go failure to respect the cold rigid line of these signs will result in an unfavorable end. While the savage seeks, explores, and struggles the metropolitan goes through motions performs mundane tasks to perpetuate the system which in return feeds the individuals need for temporary escape from the system he helped create. So why does the soul disappear in the metropolitan system. Is it the Dollar sign that eats it. is it that search for personal identity in the statistic sea. Is it the repetitive tasks is it propaganda posing as guide posts to freedom. I have to dive back into religion here. When Jesus Christ walked and taught his message was rebellious it went against the structure of the Romans and of Jewish tradition it was about separating yourself from that beast. His message was savage it was about living life in the best way you could not blindly excepting what ever was thrown your direction. Christianity fell victim to the same curse and merged with the ideals of the Roman empire, The apposing beast it found its way to incorporate and destroy the soul. as it does any system that comes in contact with the mass. Christianity was used as a tool of control taken out of context and used without relevance to the text to control an illiterate society. hat was a lifestyle became a cog, a gear wheel in the system. This is more relevant to class, When Primitive art is introduced, this concept of an untamed world was allowed to sneak into the imagination. It turned heads averted attention it was me with opposition riots it was unexceptable maybe even revolutionary Unchecked it could have brought the created world to its knees then the beast quickly seized its opportunity and swallowed the savage plundered it, squeezed it like a wash rag until every drop of its life was gone. Then they sold cups for a penny a piece and society obliged saying yes I will have a sip. And when the world had drank from the cup the rush of the spirit no longer held sweetness but instead tasted bitter. But the hope of possibility exists that there is something free out there there is adventure there is possibility, that there still exists something of the idea of a circle of life. That maybe having control is less important to being in control than not having control forcing oneself into the situation of surviving. I want to leave with this thought modern is now, life is passing by. The times i have spent in mountains trying to find what has been beat out of me by the city is never long enough. Its like allowing a callous to wear away. One of my friends who moved out of our small town into Dallas introduced me to the analogy of the big city callous. It's the blause attitude if one wants to use big fancy french terms. Growth happens on more than just one level, there are are many ways to gage the worth of a person. The metropolitan man is no better person than the man from the small town. The man from the small town has infinitely more soul and love to tap from. Cities deal in dollars and cents you get what you pay for, sometimes you get screwed. In my ideal you have a community, small, interconnecting, you build a family with those that surround you, the good of one is the good of all and at the end of the day you eat or you go hungry and you all do it together. Ayn Rand leaves this senario as taboo due to moochers and others that refuse to pull their weight. Yet in the end of Atlas Shrugged She ends up in this small community of equally driven individuals. The city is cold and slicing seems more savage than savage to me. Utopia will not exist as long as people do. So buy an uzi and start mowing. Better days are ahead.
before each new era we reach a point of stagnation and art in all of its forms seems to become pointless just in repitition of itself its the era and time we are in right now we engage in the act of rasa not expecting anything more than a distraction genre art everything in my mind every creation appeared to be the same old thing where to next i need to know January 26 today we moved to a larger room with no natural light i think i may go insane t.j. clark the painting of modern life 1850 1895 prose poem - new poetic form introduced fevilleton- cultural section of news paper serial novels a chapter a week modernism in dance stravinsky - rite of spring Ballets Russes scandelous why was this music so radical as to the point of instigating a riot there is a connection of radical art and radical politics civil war in paris movement in anarchy -- radical socialism corbet from near swiss border saw himself as backwoods "realist" ---- son of a successful farmer ---- individualist and anarchist-- landscape --- must be true to the natural world1850 corbet dispalys the burial painting satire of a dead high art manet- painted city life 1862 luncheon on the grass painted the nude in a modern setting with people you would see every day olympia- 1865- modern venus--staring at you--- Victoria Mevrost- known as a prostitute and manets model----black cat arched back erect tail-- flipped off every body degas- explored less classy areas(brothels) in pastel renoir- modern world as a spectacle portraying leaisure class -- became preocupied with the nude later in his career out door scenes display the changing landscape monet - impression sunrise light became his obsession 1890 built the watergarden giavarni----which he designed and then spent the last 20 years of his life there paintings of the lily pond lack of finish pissaro - industrial landscape bodelaire in the barricades fighting with the republicans to overthrow govt 1848 revolution europeans against monarchy impressionists paris opera house bojwa franco prussian war paris comune... industrial revolution nudes --- birth of venus salon rapid painting - imppressionist invinted out door open air painting trains motor cars motion ... modernism fades out quickly the painters scatter and then post modernism takes the place baudelaire's poems-- visual poetry -- working with the word image she is the representaion of the dark just like the city the poets identity is not fixed its fluid every thing is at his disposal erotic life the emotinal and metal space is his own solitary and thoughtfull alone and a bachelor but its all in his head the crowd is gendered as feminine and he penetrates it chance.....encounters etc. the stranger separated from it by something every one is living their pointless aimless lives with out seeing what i see the things that i see and if they could see them it would not irritate them like they do to me they don't mind wasting their time they have no souls ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2/2/05 no class living in an urban environment journal entry use pictures etc. Journal entry one picking one quote from this sprawling writing was difficult the things that i took from it were scattered everywhere. However to conform in this river washing over me I will say the quote i take from this and warp into my own context is: "the individual in his intellectual development follows the growth of this spirit very imperfectly and at an ever increasing distance." anger is oozing out of me from every pore I fucking hate this guy and his ideals and the subject matter and metropolis. I hate LA and all the fucking cars and traffic. I hate the way that everybody is somebody and its all about which circle you are in and who you "know". fuck simmel and fuck all metropolitan males for thinking they are more intelectual than those who lead simple lives in small towns. fuck the way that they develop and develop and choke out the life of what God designed. Always and eternally they try to replace him. with smog atmospheres and concrete. And then they try to take it back to nature" you know, green it up a little." Overdeveloped suburbs with uncohesive plant life. A big tenticled cluster of city monster leaving these little escapes that they charge 7 bucks so that you can park and see it. "hey this is what it would look like if we weren't here." So smart but soulless their spirits fade they see the world in gray they are just like me and then again not at all how do you stand out when their are a million others trying to stand out too? every one has their little specialized thing that they do. every one avoids eye contact unless they think their is some in for them some way that they can get ahead. Personal gain in the form of wealth at the sake of the whole world I think Simmel said something like that. inward individualization is farce, some kind of attempt to reclaim a humanity that got lost somewhere along the way. Kindness, friendliness, LOVE, wisked away like depleated recources, but no body bitches about a president trying to restore these. there's this bjork song that says "i can obey all of your rules and still be me" what choice do you have its that or death by firing squad there is a question of good and evill that exists and is to often neglected and shaped colored you may say by personal gains and perspective. we live in a make beleive culture driven by people telling us wrong and right and all these different sources feeding into the brain drive one insane. I guess thats where the blase attitude comes in this protective shell to remove feeling and all the things that make a small town work. you see with a small town everyone is interconnected everyone can rely on others and you don't need clocks to make the world go round you don't need clogs you don't need gain... idealistic bullshit... that kind of town doesn't exist that kind of community consumerism destroyed it the whole western european we are better than everything else adopt our ways cease to be heathens or we'll kill you. i'm really angry i think i am going to go hide in my luxury condo now and watch some TV until I am ready to go to sleep and get up tommorow to make money so that i can exist until i die. just remember there is no higher purpose to serve there is no spirit joy is wealth and life is work someday you will die (don't be stupid and think that you may have a soul that will transcend, you are just your thoughts and when you die your brain is gone too) and the system will recycle your remains in a big plot of land and keep moving on eventually the economy will need space, buy the cemetary and build a strip mall on top of it and your rotting carcass Tool said it best (and i apoligize to leave you with the F word but everyone should be immune to it anyway) this is a summation of desires and dreams in the title track ®nima some say the end is near some say well see armagedon soon i certainly hope we will i sure could use a vacation from this bullshit three ring circus side show of freaks here in this hopless fucking hole we call la the only way to fix it is to flush it all away any fuckin time any fuckin day learn to swim ill see you down in arizona bay fret for your figure and fret for your latte and fret for your lawsuit and fret for your hairpeice and fret for your prozac and fret for your pilate and fret for your contract and fret for your car some say a comet will fall from the sky followed by meteor showers and tidal waves followed by faultlines that cannot sit still followed by billions of dumbfounded dipshits and some say the end is near some say well see armagedon soon i certainly hope we will i sure could use a vacation from this stupid shit, silly shit one great big festering neon distraction i've a suggestion to keep you all occupied learn to swim moms gonna fix it all soon moms comin round to put it back the way it ought to be learn to swim fuck L.Ron Hubbard and fuck all his clones fuck all these gun-toting hip gangster wannabes Learn to swim. Fuck retro anything Fuck your tattoos. Fuck all you junkies and Fuck your short memory. Learn to swim. Fuck smiley glad-hands With hidden agendas. Fuck these dysfunctional, Insecure actresses. Learn to swim. Cuz I'm praying for rain And I'm praying for tidal waves I wanna see the ground give way. I wanna watch it all go down. Mom please flush it all away. I wanna watch it go right in and down. I wanna watch it go right in. Watch you flush it all away. Time to bring it down again. Don't just call me pessimist. Try and read between the lines. I can't imagine why you wouldn't Welcome any change, my friend. I wanna see it all come down. suck it down. flush it down. here it seems appropriate to place the february 16 in journal assignment of course i hate the city i want a cabin in the woods with river running with clean water, no pollution, daily hikes, billions less cars, communities that support each other in ways other than monetarily. I want mountains not littered with houses that all look identical to each other. I want trees i want the asymmetry and complexity and chaos of nature as opposed to the hard strait lines that Parisian reform found so appealing. I despise the machine, i despise that people allow it to tell them what to enjoy and what to think. I hate television because of its brainwashing and mind control. Some times I respect terrorism for the beast they are battling. Not so much their tactics but the reasons. how are mordern revolutionists any less noble than those that created the world that we live in and respect so much. Sadness is when we try to return to something pure, natural, unadulterated, "indigenous" and then the beast figures out its something we long for and construct a way to mass produce it and resell it at twice the price and quantity over takes quality it becomes fashion and then fad and the beauty is lost, the gold is replaced by spray painted wood and the black tar oozing from within is unstoppable and will devour this entire planet eventually. there is no way to stop this "progress", our way of replacing God... 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In-journal assignment February 23, 2005 Dearest Virginia, a copy of your book Haunted house and other short stories sits beside me as i stare out across the mountains here in Switzerland in peace while the rest of the world crumbles to hell. Your story solid objects reminded me of Picasso seeking out objects maybe not peices of china and polished glass but something in there gave me a sense of his found art collages. maybe it was the collector, maybe it was the visuals that I saw as the outskirts of paris where he would search for somthing that could not surpass the last thing that enthralled him. the Politics made me draw back to the terror in occurance right now. woe that France has become the haunted house and where gardens once grew the boards have lost their paint and windows are now empty the light that was once eminating from inside has faded. Its twilight now someday i will return will Paris ever be as i left it. thank you for being a writer your soul is that of a guardian angel guiding me home to memories of yesteryear. thank you your biggest fan an artist... --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2/9/05 Boudalaire to Zimmel paris reform urban landscape crouds - eyes of the poor - widows paresian prowler urban polution and the san river formiliztion of public spaces greening up of cities housmanization housman attempted to get rid of street life replaced it with traffic rag pickers collected everything and took it to be recycled obsessed with perfect visibility and the striat line and perspective destroying nature gentrification urban renewal is about the displacement of old populations with new populations avenu of the opera uniformity replaces humanistic individuality and points towards monuments why for the purpose of control and to show state power in old paris it was hard to squelch uprisings and it created an objective society based on calculating egos and there was kimmel with his pen objective culture triumps over subjective culture each is given a specialized function in the urban economy but asks where is the person- the whole person factuality and punctuality the disciplining of time matter of factness the mentality of an urbanite is reserved formal and social relations are based on non personal city vs country life this is still the case zimmels idea was true 1890s electric trams introduced sensory overload digital age becomes the next step of over load suburbanization vs the modernist view nerves over load advertising noise traffic the blase attitude - tune out - create a wall around the inner self the big city callous or go crazy and then there was capitalism how much became the question and the blase becomes the jaded consumer seek the next thing which can interupt or top the stimulation so that they can become excited again sachlich- in germany means- blase - they don't emote anything - they lose the significance of meaning programatic going through the motions the velocity of modern life primitivism february 16 modernist primitivism 1913 the rite of spring performed by the Ballets Russes pagan slavic cotuming inspired by russian folk costume virgins and elders intentionally rough costumes Nijijsky's choreography was different than most balet of the time it was an inversion of the way most dance of the time was prestented a major part of the choreography was running jumping stomping etc natural movements using unatural poses that were difficult for the body in much the same but opposite way stravinsky's music gave more to an instinctual rhythmic tribal yet chaotic and assymetrical as far as rhythmic innovation and his use of time signature he asked a lot of the performers in the nature of fast moving sections and extended techniques expressive rather than surface anti visual the dark and chaotic side of nature the peice was "barbaric" being about the sacrifice of a virgin to the spring the strain and difficulty of performing the peice becomes apparent in anxiety in performance within the first ten minutes most had left a riot had started the conducter was told no matter what not to stop and even stravinsky left debussy more melodic the harmonies make sense its still difficult to play representational of water and ripples the concept of time virginia wolf time forwards backwards side to side analogue to african cultures gauguin- savage eden- went to tahiti - world fairs 3 shcools of thought in modernist primitivism 1)meyer schapiro- stylistic motivation - tranforming the exotic into trangressive 1930s 2)James Clifford - collonialism context this is the wests disturbing taste for appropriating otherness out of art into a political context stealing cultures--symbolic domination 3) Jill Lloyd new art history- modernislm and mass culture media advertising postcards travel tourism boujios life and in worlds fairs its about the way that we look at the other life the illusion of exoticized native life formalism - view of an internal element of style that leaves to an i tribal and modern moma 1911 the spiritual and art so where is the high art as apposed to the art of the art of entertainment how do you fight off commercialism the return to nature why does it appeal because we are never happy because we must go in the opposite direction violent experience appeals what seperates the way that an artist looks at art and your standard joe blow so how do you piss off your audience when your audience wants to be pissed off February 23,2005 duration and simultanity important movement in poetry and painting short lived cezannes technique vs the impressionists - from aix a province in the south of france-had no facination with the ragged edges, urban subjects ,etc... so he left paris and went back to aix and painted the landscapes and still life the idea of multiple perspective - is his novel creation because he take a long time to create his canvas unlike the snapshot of impressionism the concept of time and of broken perspective like tectonicplates clive bell- was the first to write about cezanne illuminates from within picasso's - cubism collage formalism-its how you made it and what with - rather than trying to say something Henri Begson's theory of memory- time on the clock as apposed to time in the mind developing the term of durtation the classical motion of time moving forward in one direction in uniform measurments think of the clock, newtonian challenged the mind set that time is irreversable 1880s is when we created the coordination of temporal experience by standardizing the clock and also electricity duration is moments in times experienced in conciousness - its series of strung together moments that melt and become an extended moment of uniqueness mental time can stretch minutes can seem like hours hours can seem like minutes concept of the virtual in no succession of instances but rather all just wolfs notion of narrative time regetion of the railway narrative and the ability to digress warning of a world that is completly commercial in nature is dangerous consumerism chapter two on memory and the brain--bergson there is no perception out of context memory images habit interprated by memory memory is not a storage unit its a centralized telephonic exchange the body is an image out of a stream of becoming oh like the matrix i love modernism its such a novel name for something so old pariahs - outcasts time manipulation elasticity of time in the mind it can be stretched or condensed stalled 1911-perception of change perception what does it mean to have attention attention is fragmented virginia wolff stares at a mark on the wall anything can be a starting point if the attention is momentarilly fixed there is no action rather it is happening in mental space we can cut from this its about the perception of the mind attention is fragmented time can be stretched slowed down i want to play more with the time element not only going backwards all of this occurs in conciousness amoment of high concentration wasting time non productive ------ dreams recolections obsessed with scraps and remnents pieces destroying adult reality but the real world the objective world crumbles revealing his conciousness a slippery slope buying into this allusion thats not an illusion at all but more real than anything else ego preserved or disolved ordinary things become art with the collapsing of the boundaries between subjectivity and objectivity 1884- against nature - first use of an anti hero doesn't go anywhere stalled narative rings of light swollen out narrative of mental experiences to compress them putting past present an future all at the same time the complexity rises epiphanies can only happen by these compressions then you break through the past naws on the present leaving teeth marks no erasure of past droning on and on coloring the present shaping the future verbal montage time is compressed in the transiberian fractured simultaneously here and there there are simultaneous bleeding through and fractured pictures juxtaposed march 9 2005 futurism 1909 marinetti le figuaro masageny throughout the futurist writings women werent a bart until surealism the embace of war and technology interesting movement in music 1914 russolo- invents the futurist manifesto noise music zang tom tom- 1912 words in freedom rendering sound in words developed sound poetry cacophany of warfare vaudville reviews - musicals - incoherent and disjointed performances engage the audience taunting back and forth between the performers challenge their expectations assaulting the audience it was wagner that brought the black audience sitting silent watching the stage art riots futurist evenings performance becomes a taboo word dadaist futurism - right wing facist mousilini 1916- left wing protest of war everyone that wanted out of the war mostly eastern european anti war passifists hippies of europe how do you live art realease propaganda about your self art is dead machine asthetic ================================================================ so they put up these fences banned exploring restricted open doors new dreams the story we tell is modernist the sounds we hear are high pitched screams decending passing by like buzzing insects on a mission so many sounds so many complications and on each new interruption we found all broke and fell winding apart in twisting elegance learning to learn this world a tunnel we are meant to pass through a filter of some kind intrest increasing do the sounds decend in sweep get the information you seek from the world all around you preaching it now words come forth but from where the brain as an enemy the brain as every thing a thousand different levels of arms going off in every random way look out i can be the good influence i can lead but i am so small playtime www.tativille.com TO ALL OF MY TEACHERS in my acomplish ment all will have a part helping me get there create gut instincts inter locking side parts i want to build a thousand little robot monkeys that do my bidding soundscape the tuning of the world computer music in c phil winsor march 16 2005 bauhaus abstraction in design painting fashion in all media weimar 1919 metal dance pole dance not really theater building a block universe tretise on asthetic swinging between empathy and abstraction pshycic under pennings empathy is synonymous with naturalism the urge to empathy artistic valition move toward a defining moment of connection with the phenomenal flux of the natural world what makes the greatest artist is the antiindivual that can underly all empathys that is collective and expresses the kunst vulin what limits art is the materials in german philosophy giest means spirit spite means time spite giest = spirit of the times pride- hubris classical objective pathway to understanding the universe abstraction is a way ti divest the capricious world into a world of reality make the abstract view something that the stupids can't live without make them see it the way you do the way that we all should the lines that are drawn by intelectuals using words to define an art that they could not create it seems unreal art is about making marks and shapes figurative representation some day i will be considered sophisticated if i could talk in big words no no no this is not for me i will find the view given to me i will tap into the global conciousness and make abstractions that will define the world conciousness words are chains analysis is worthless after the fact is this relevant i am not in this i am seperated except for magic catch words like magic there is no more to the work than the works of the gods 2d is an agoraphobic neurotic reaction theory theory theory arggg organic - inorganic oscar shlemmer = bad ass dance coreographer uses props like poles and a lot of geometry March 23 we are behind as a class trapped in a concrete box for two hours but we have five extra minutes of leway now moving towards no objective german aesthetic art is a manfestation of a collective will 30s and 40s bahaus school pshycic insecurity cenetered around catastrophic events the longing for geometric shapes umbrella term - abstractionism russian construcvtivism- suprematishi- in all mediums film, graphic design, theater, etc. modernist archetecture- proun factography tarabukins theory- departure from borringer after bulshivic revolution and russias loss- civil war bullshivics/communists defeat the czar lenin - in the arts all about utopia - a socialist utopia- naturalism- thematic content oriented music - establishment of a peoples state - abstraction to synthesize art anti bujwa art about the triumph of socialism- prolitarian from the esil to the machine the concern with form and materials moving away from content and focusing on the form of a work of art this is a radical shift reversing the hierachy of western thought - no merit except in the context of its subject i am liberated from meaning and the connection to the audience is shattered and the art stands on its own without any need to be a part of something else music for musicians art for artists dance for dancers screw your audience the art is self contained artist manifestos are propaganda "gobbledy gook" because artists don't know how to talk about their work began working with metals and later plastic worringers theory lissitsky rubrik under which things fall seperating art from life leads to the gallery and the museums and will began to lose its power and will die out by 1923 social crisis art shift rochankos wife a textile fabric designer stepanovva - unisex clothing mondrion - titan loois sullivan april 6 we're back social history is not concerned with the object but rather the context research is unneccesary just follow the themes and your own interpretation of the class i have not provided evidence of my " deep engagement of the material" so use the textual material i am the male model artist in the baudelair i adopt his mindset and hibrid what i appreciate and think is relevent with myself you don't see that i have made this scattered for a reason journals dont read like the orientation should be questions of form not of meaning over all what we see is the traditional all the formalism is moving out crossing disciplines what does this building mean what was the aim of the archetect manual for style is chicago and the noun impressionism is supposed to be lower case and i am thinking why does it matter it will continue to shift style, rules, blah blah so and so said "quote yayayayyay" (c. 767) kyle said "is this relevant, i mean really i make noise music my brother is the english major" (first letter and non existant page) whats up with words they don't mean anything like a hippie in the corner saying "man its all an illusion" J.Khuysmans Against Nature Des Esseints Interior - this book and madam bovarie or somthing are considered the first modernist novel( note that modernist is lowercase) issues of consumerism, mental life and mental health, and the notion in modernist design, and the way that the interior of the home is to be designed as stalled narrative oscar wild the british playwrite said its the strangest book i ever read" decadence generally refers to writers of the 1800s the decedent poet as a dandy culturally related to the flaneur dandy - a hipster - a new aristocratic character - established on how cool you are on what you wear, or other external signs their distinction from the common crowd and the only way that you can do that is on the outside dandys are defined by the act of consumption some one say des esseintes -the dandy is not a dreamy individual because their desire must be presented on the outside he is blase shifting tired of sex fuck propper so this loaded little rich fuck is an obsessive interiior designer , a sickly antique and rare book and scent collector so you got to have money to buy it cause he's got elite tastes with these fantasy rooms his consumerist tastes are different than all these little fashionable twats confined to their mass tastes so this guy is the weird spirittualist shopper who gets sent to exotic places by his objects he doesn't do it to show off he does it to why is the object so important to forming the identity his imaginary life and memories are in these objects which he constantly rearanges he becomes the purist consumer most buy pretencious junk to show off how great they are but this guy has no social life instead he uses the objects to replace the value of human beings the novel proceeds and the suburanites world (his house) called fontenie begins to take his life and vitality from the hero the interior becomes more animated and the hero, simmels blause becomes freuds hysterical woman lifeless and sicker and sicker and sicker illogical anxious on the way to a nearvous breakdown. neurasthenia is what it was called he builds this constantly changing world fair simulating the experience of a wi=orlds fair exibit his dinig room is designed as a underwater ship artificial simulations to stimulate his halluciantions he is using special effects but every illusion quickly becomes a disalusion splendedic boredom we crave nature is an illusion their is nothing healthy in the world how to find fullfillment in a world where is a failing illusion what you hold on to trying to save yourself and your dying ideal call in a nervous specialist who tells him to change his lifestyle and to move back to paris and become a part of society but he has a better idea an ascetic lifestyle i could move to a monestary but it to has been jaded by the beast but ends up moving back to the city significant quisman and others went to the monastary religion becomes the solution for many modernists || ===== || || you could stop there makes a lot of sense archetecture the victorian bulky big dramatic furniture borrowing Style which is capitalized for this period replacing styleness gothic renisance gestantkunstwerk- total art work - create the entire architecture - to work together - to be one - interior and exterior because it is very soothing sanitoriums are being built using sachlichkeit aesthetics- sober straight lines Peter Behrens next week i missed it for a javanese dance recital at redcat the next week i missed it so now its April 25 2005 and the beginning starts with the end which will cover modernism and the media so think about the connection between europe and america shurenberg one of many european modernists who left during ww2 and moved to LA then before that there will be some john cage who came out of LA and then moved into Seatle colaborator with dancers visual artists and he was also a poet really interdiciplinary wrote manifestos very consious about what affected his music modernism and buddism especially the idea of non duality cages east west attempt at fusion seems almost new age belongs in a yoga class 1952 woodstock new york 4'33" performed for the first time by david tudor who indicated three movements by closing and reopening the piano key cover and at the end just got up and left there is no such thing as silence there is always ma knew duchant who ended up in new york the redi mades which were and are considered the original conceptual art makes you dead aware that art is comodified rousello and his orchestra making noise music mimicking the futurists but instead cage was attempting to put the two in seperate spaces not trying to replicating it but embracing that it is always there then trys to replace the audience as a passive listener and create an interactive situation for the viewer or listener to offend the audience with a concept rather than with the piece its self is off the charts generating the art riot silence is a political statement against power the audience should confront the maddness within yourself duchants L.H.O.O.Q. mona lisa with a mustache radio- imaginary landscapes no.1 (1939) to be performed in a radio studio live and be recorded though broadcast ego is threatend by disolusion there is noise everywhere there is no escape from it we may be irritated by it or we may use the distraction as part of our art it engages the art as the medium and the message focus and concentration ------------------------------------------------------------------ we are seeing the wash of nostalgia. with a tinge of conservatism now hyper institutionaliztion