[microsound] droplifting -- words for the digital detritus ..//drop.lifting & dreams

[Bill Ashline <williamlashline@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 7/27/03 8:47 AM, "The pHarmanaut" <pharmanaut@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Arguably,
> Duchamp makes the same mistake by bringing readymade art objects into the
> gallery; the gallery STILL fulfills its traditional, authorizing, endorsing,
> and legitimizing function. Thus, Kim, the Duchamp analogy also strikes me as
> somewhat backwards, though I do appreciate his prankster habits. I think it
> would be more interesting, and more of a "droplifting" act, to put Mona Lisa
> in a public urinal than to put a urinal in a gallery.

It doesn't work, Trace, because it shifts Duchamp's perennial and
undecidable question about "is or is it not art?" "is or is it not
painting?" to "is or is it (the bathroom) not a gallery?"  The object
doesn't change at all and it doesn't have a radical effect (at least for its
time).  It only says we can enjoy beautiful masterpieces anywhere, even
places where we are primordially repulsed (and therefore attracted).

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