tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5265813806993497215.post3794100323721285252..comments2024-01-29T00:22:36.258-08:00Comments on e y e C O N T A C T: Two exhibitionsJohn Hurrellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07411877334096071312noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5265813806993497215.post-12276159462092690112009-08-19T03:33:02.497-07:002009-08-19T03:33:02.497-07:00hi john,
i wasn't suggesting that they're ...hi john,<br />i wasn't suggesting that they're rejecting the idea of authorship altogether. of course they are still 'authors', making art works. what i think they've left behind is a notion of authorship which hinges primarily on claims to the putative originality of a given image, work or idea. (hence their ease, proceeding without creating 'original footage', and hence also, we might imagine, the value in 'bothering' to reiterate or further explore a remediation that some other artist has gotten to just before you.) this older 'originality' may sound like quite a qualified notion of authorship - and perhaps it is - but it's been the dominant sort of authoring going on for quite a while, really, and is what got ossified in the legal identity of the author under capitalism. exorcising this demon we might take to be a fundamental agenda of much appropriationist art since the 80s, and i for one welcome the initiative. <br />best,<br />dtdthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02315413921674281620noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5265813806993497215.post-6787771045242327862009-08-19T02:36:48.998-07:002009-08-19T02:36:48.998-07:00Great to get your contribution, dt. However is it ...Great to get your contribution, dt. However is it really obvious these artists are rejecting the notion of authorship? I'm not sure how you can make that assumption. Even Douglas Gordon would probably claim to be the first to play Psycho over 24 hours. Romantic or not, most artists still value the idea of originality somewhere in their practice.John Hurrellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07411877334096071312noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5265813806993497215.post-31040927550280955312009-08-18T23:33:35.877-07:002009-08-18T23:33:35.877-07:00hi folks,
a quick comment on this. of course these...hi folks,<br />a quick comment on this. of course these two are not the only artists to have attempted this sort of remediation job on iconic cinema classics. even if they are aware of each other's efforts, i don't see why the later effort would be any less worthy or worthwhile than the earlier. this'd seem to me to be clinging to a romantic idea of authorship that both artists have clearly left behind them. for those who are interested, the Stephen Fox work you mention here was screened as part of a special event called The Late Sessions, curated by Sydney mash-up video freaks, Soda_Jerk, which premiered at Hoyts George Street. The programme comprised the work of Australian video artists actively exploring their relationships to cinema. <br />cheers,<br />dt (of Chalk Horse Gallery, Sydney, and aforementioned Half Dozen, who commissioned The Late Sessions. www.chalkhorse.com.au)dthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02315413921674281620noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5265813806993497215.post-63075196101257950512009-06-12T14:32:04.725-07:002009-06-12T14:32:04.725-07:00Well the Hendriks exhibtion was curated for MIC To...Well the Hendriks exhibtion was curated for MIC Toi Rerehiko by Nicole Edwards. Perhaps she should have known, or at least commented on it in the small publication. Maybe that is the explanation for the title of his show?John Hurrellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07411877334096071312noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5265813806993497215.post-25889568665904146752009-06-12T05:18:09.233-07:002009-06-12T05:18:09.233-07:00Heh, I don't know, not having seen either vide...Heh, I don't know, not having seen either videos myself. The only reason I know Stephen Fox's work exists is via a publication I have from 1/2 doz. project space in Sydney (http://www.halfdozen.org/). My guess is that there are so many artists in the world making all kinds of work that quite possibly Hendriks was unaware some other human being had the same idea :-)gnutehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04531420382594855447noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5265813806993497215.post-16688556682098254442009-06-12T03:20:21.099-07:002009-06-12T03:20:21.099-07:00Thanks a lot Lydia. That's very interesting in...Thanks a lot Lydia. That's very interesting info. With Fox doing it first, one wonders why Hendriks bothered. Perhaps the works differ in some way hitherto unexplained?John Hurrellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07411877334096071312noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5265813806993497215.post-7641866196427829202009-06-12T02:30:08.705-07:002009-06-12T02:30:08.705-07:00Artist Stephen Fox also made a work erasing the bi...Artist Stephen Fox also made a work erasing the birds. His work was called "The Birds (edit)" (2006, digital video 03:06) - except the word "Bird" in the title has a line struck through it, I just don't know the html to do this! One online source (http://www.artlink.com.au/articles.cfm?id=2813) reads: "Stephen Fox's lengthy homage to Hitchcock's The Birds provides a world away from soap. In scenes taken from the film, Fox obliterates every bird from the footage. Filling the negative space of each bird with other footage and slowing audio to a low groan, he creates a complex montage of absent menace. At the climax the birds attack the family, but with the birds obliterated, the people seem to be shielding and fighting a demonic, imagined force."<br /><br />- Lydia Chaignutehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04531420382594855447noreply@blogger.com