AUTUMN 2020 - FRAGMENTS - SOLD OUT
I CAN ONLY GIVE YOU OF MYSELF, OF MY WHOLE SELF … A SYSTEM OF FRAGMENTS, BECAUSE I MYSELF AM LIKE THAT?
CONSTRUCTED AS A FRAGMENT AND STRUCK BY INCOMPLETION? ART AS A FRAGMENT AS A LIFE PROJECT, EVEN?
THE INSUFFICIENCY OF COMPLETE WORKS
A DREAM IS A FRAGMENTARY FORM OF APPEARANCE OF THE INCALCULABLE, INFINITE RELATIONS OF THE TOTALITY OF PSYCHIC ACTIVITY AND ITS ‘OUTSIDE’ AND OF THE RELATION TO THE UNKNOWABLE?
‘THE SUM OF THE MOMENTS OF … TIME DREAMING … IS NOT INFERIOR TO THE SUM OF … THE MOMENTS OF WAKING … AT ANY GIVEN MOMENT WE HAVE ONLY A DISTINCT NOTION OF REALITIES, THE COORDINATION OF WHICH IS A QUESTION OF WILL … NOTHING ALLOWS US TO PRESUPPOSE A GREATER DISSIPATION OF THE ELEMENTS OF WHICH THE DREAM IS CONSTITUTED’
THE GENERIC CONCEPT OF ART; OR: WHAT LIES BENEATH SCHLEGEL’S GENERIC NAME FOR THE FRAGMENTARY WORK (‘POETRY’); OR: THE GENERIC CONCEPT OF ART LURKING BENEATH THE ROMANTIC CONCEPT OF LITERATURE?
THE MUSEUM WAS BUILT INTO THE 19TH CENTURY TO HOUSE RENAISSANCE FRAGMENTS: MUSEUMS ARE CONTAINERS OF FRAGMENTS OF THE PAST
ONLY WHEN ART IS FRAGMENTED, DISCONTINUOUS AND INCOMPLETE CAN WE KNOW ABOUT THE VACANT ETERNITY THAT EXCLUDES OBJECTS AND DETERMINED MEANINGS
NEWS: ‘ONCE I AM DEAD AND EVERYONE WHO KNEW ME DIES TOO, IT WILL BE AS THOUGH I NEVER EXISTED’ - BEUYS IS DEAD! (AGAIN?)
NEWS: THE RENAISSANCE DEMANDS THAT THE PRESENT RETURN ITS ORPHAN CHILDREN - ’SCULPTURE’ AND ‘PAINTING’ - TO THEIR MOTHER, ‘ARCHITECTURE’.
WALTER BENJAMIN ON THE OUTRAGEOUS PROPORTION THE READING OF NOVELS HAS ATTAINED IN ALL OUR LIVES
AVANTE-GARDE PSUEDO-POETRY? THE CINEMA: A MISALLIANCE BETWEEN PHOTOGRAPHY AND THE NOVEL?