Re: [microsound] process and preset [was: Re: [microsound] ovalprocess - Average laptop geek?]

[Kyle Klipowicz <kyleklip@xxxxxxxxx>]

What a brilliant work of art!  Those Chapman boys have nothing on
Barschak.  He was merely mimetically extending their own expression in
such a way that it ridiculed them.  How can they fault it, other than
claiming bruised egos?

~Kyle

On 5/25/05, COSTELLOE Richard <Richard.COSTELLOE@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> just read this in the sunday papers this week. seems like one way to
> find out if what you're doing is art... (what would McDonna think?!)
> 
> Consider Aaron Barschak, the so-called comedy terrorist who gate-crashed
> Prince William's 21st birthday party. In October 2003, he appeared in
> court on a charge of criminal damage. Barschak had interrupted a talk by
> Jake and Dinos Chapman at the Modern Art Oxford gallery. The Chapman
> brothers were discussing their exhibit The Rape of Creativity, which
> features cartoon heads superimposed on a series of etchings by Goya.
> Barschak had splashed red paint on one of the artworks, and on Jake
> Chapman, shouting: "Viva Goya!" He claimed he was creating his own
> artwork, made out of another's art just as the Chapmans had adapted
> Goya, and that he intended to enter his work for the Turner prize.
> Finding him guilty, district judge Brian Loosley said:
> 
> "This is a serious offence of wanton destruction of a work of art . . .
> Even by modern standards and even stretching the imagination to
> incredulity, this was not the creation of a work of art."
> 
> 

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