so sneaky!

Like many of my other postcards which I’ve collected over the years, my Theodore Gericault postcard serves it purpose better as a reluctant bookmark than that of a brief note written to an overzealous friend awaiting my return from a "fabulous" trip. Today I found it lodged in Joseph Beuys: Diverging Critiques – Liverpool University Press & Tate Gallery Liverpool.

“EVERY HUMAN BEING IS AN ARTIST who – from his state of freedom – the position of freedom that he experiences at first-hand – learns to determine the other positions in THE TOTAL ARTWORK OF THE FUTURE SOCIAL ORDER. Self-determination and participation in the cultural sphere (freedom); in the structuring of laws (democracy); and in the sphere of economics (socialism). Self-administration and decentralization (threefold structure) occurs…”

Beuys wanted to define the actuality of art as an ethical model that allowed for the freedom of co-operative action within society.

In regards to an expanded conception of sculpture he states:

“This intentionality is nothing less than the exploration of dynamic relations between ‘reality as permanent’ and ‘reality as fluent’. When formed as an open-ended presence, a work of art defines a generation of real occasions by fixing reality in an ever-changing movement forward towards infinity.

HeadSPACE:

READ/SEE THIS: Vitamin D : New Perspectives in Drawing by Emma Dexter
Note (for you music nerds): when flipping through this, I saw an entry for Devendra Banhart – “neo psych/folk hippie singer/songwriter” – not really my style (musically or artistically), but interesting nonetheless!

++ Dammit! ++
Just as I heard about this band, Test Icicles, they decide to break up! Anyhow, check them out because they still get royalties!:

+review: Pitchfork: Test Icicles

+buy: Test Icicles Webpage