Tag Archives: Piero Manzoni

gas leak

The crappy nothingness of it all that skirts the foggy perimeter that defines vulgarity and respectability with a play on the pretensions of class and its relation to income. A sort of laughing gas that comes out of the human … Continue reading

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swift kick in the keegster

Psst! Pass the bum wipe.  Perversion seems intrinsic to modern art, at least at the split off side that gazes into the bowl of disavowal. And this has been so from the beginning; the long arc extending back to an … Continue reading

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hold your nose: flushing into a non-existant past

Excerpts from a brilliant article exposing the underside of what Adorno called the “cultural industries” and what Kuspit refers to as art as part of the industrial entertainment complex so drowned and subsumed by money values there is strictly form … Continue reading

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the great white hope

The shitty nothingness of it all. Shit as pure nothingness. The essence of the empty and void.Nothingness. A man eager to give society, the political body, a political enema to purge it of all its shit. Politics as substitute shit. … Continue reading

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absurdities: the masculine warrior figure

Vanity is usually pretty revolting. An auto-glorification. narcissism. But as a minor saving grace, it can aspire to a certain honesty. But, for some reason, the relationship between vanity and worshiping money remains an enduring legacy, as if the power … Continue reading

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a private necessity: embodied material culture

Its a simple act. But one charged with complex emotional meaning. But then everything connected with the body is complicated and related to such issues as anxiety, fear, money, self-esteem and sexuality; much of this is widely disseminated in modern … Continue reading

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unwilling complicity

This is quite grotesque. It was written by Slavoj Zizek, an it is part of a discussion on distinguishing true emotion form the false, and true dignity,that elusive chalice, from the pre-digested, packaged clutter of modern life, known as kitsch. … Continue reading

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EFFING THIS & EFFING THAT: ART & POLITICS OF FUDDLE DUDDLE

Puritanism: as “the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.” ( H.L. Mencken ) Fornication Under Consent of the King. For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge. Fuckedandfarfromhome. The F-Bomb ….”How do you people really feel about doing it? Isn’t that about … Continue reading

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