Every lie creates a parallel world... the world in which it's true.

[imomus]

Preparing for my three months of art performance at the Whitney, I've kitted myself out with a new pair of amazingly baggy carpenter's trousers and a small electric bullhorn through which I will issue lies about art.



I may look like a carpenter (well, perhaps more like some kind of art ninja), but instead of a saw I'll turn up for work at the Whitney equipped only with a maxim: "Every lie creates a parallel world... the world in which it's true."

If you're into this sort of stuff, and anywhere near London, I'd recommend a trip to the ICA to see Tino Sehgal's show. Sehgal represented Germany at the Venice Biennale this year, and his performance piece "This is so contemporary" was the one everyone came away from the Giardini talking about. David Byrne's blog describes a visit to the ICA show, and it sounds even more interesting.

Comments

[me-vs-gutenberg.livejournal.com]

Ceci n'est pas un commentaire.

[me-vs-gutenberg.livejournal.com]

No but seriously, every well-formed statement, regardless wether or not it's true in any sense, "creates" a reality in which it is true, by mere virtue of being intelligible.

[imomus.livejournal.com]

Yes, but statements which claim to be nothing more than accurate and true descriptions of the world we know and see before us (additions) tend to make us lazy by seeming to obviate the need to create any parallel worlds. Lies (fabrications), on the other hand, require a corresponding fabrication on our part: the fabrication of the parallel world in which the lie is true. I think laziness is the real reason people so often dismiss lies out of hand; they simply don't want to put this imaginative work in.

[stanleylieber.livejournal.com]

Well said! I was arguing this point with our friend w_e_quimby earlier today.