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Re: [microsound] influence vs. replica - there is too much new stuff anyway

Sorry, I did not intend to be hypercritical or foolish. Let me be more clear:

First of all, in order to create a "new artform" you need to assume that there are distinct art forms that exist independently and can be clearly defined as "old" or "new".

Secondly, all objects and actions take place in a biological and cultural "becoming" or continuity that can only subjectively be isolated into discrete contexts.

"A rhizome doesn't begin and doesn't end, but is always in the middle, between, things, interbeing, intermezzo."
A quote from Deleuze and Guattari for the benefit of the poster who was asking about rhizome theory in relation to this thread.

"Wouldn't you rather be home earning money?"
A quote from a spam email I got today. Maybe that was gratuitous, but the point was that it's easier to just go about making your work and doing what interests you than to agonize over whether or not it is "new". I understand the need to grapple with the issue but don't let it change your work too much. The cult of the new has dangerous associations with technology, consumerism and planned obsolescence (as well as those more glamorous associations with art history's avant-gardes)

Again, not meaning to be offensive, just trying to be more, you know... evocative.... ;-)


-km


On Thursday, October 24, 2002, at 05:26 AM, j.frede wrote:

lets not be hypercritical and foolish here


First you would have to make "new" and then you would have to make
"artform".
I am molecules, atoms that came from other people.
A rhizome doesn't begin and doesn't end, but is always in the middle,
between
things, interbeing, intermezzo.

Wouldn't you rather be home earning money?





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