What is "the progressive art institution"?
Feb. 9th, 2008 01:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
imomus
"So, Momus, what's happening in Europe's progressive art institutions?" I hear you ask in your thousands and thousands. Well, I don't, but I'm going to tell you anyway, and I expect to find three comments when I get back from Five minutes later..., the current show at Kunst-Werke here in Berlin.Well, the answer is that this is Liam Gillick's moment. He's currently got not one but two mid-career retrospectives on, one at the Witte de With in Rotterdam, the other at the Kunsthalle Zürich (where they've rendered the colour poster in textural tones instead). Despite the poster, the Rotterdam show sees Gillick's colour palette reduced to volumetric greys, which I think is a bit of a shame; he's a great colourist as well as a restless and wide-ranging thinker. Here's a short extract from a Liam Gillick lecture, accompanied by a lovely slide of the moment when Diego Rivera, Leon Trotsky and André Breton got together for a bit of a barbie in the backyard:
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The Palais de Tokyo in Paris, meanwhile, showcases the work of collaborationist, composer and sci-art man Loris Gréaud, who was thrown out of the Paris Conservatoire for setting up a recording studio designed "to stop music". He still makes it -- here's one of his pieces, fairly conventional postwar electroacoustic fare (ah, but were you listening to what Liam Gillick said in his lecture about the postwar?). And here's a video piece Gréaud showed at Art Basel Miami, of a corn seed breaking the surface tension of a sheet of water:
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I suppose I set myself the question that heads today's entry because I watched this Tateshots video in which the Tate Modern's chief curator Sheena Wagstaff talks about the current show at Tate Modern, by Spanish sculptor Juan Muñoz, and was struck by a certain old-fashionedness both in the way Wagstaff speaks and thinks, and in Muñoz's work itself. And that sent me scurrying off to the Witte de With in Rotterdam, a reliably progressive institution. But what does that really mean, a "progressive institution"? It's something I'm sure Liam Gillick could tell us a thing or two about.
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Date: 2008-02-09 12:35 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-02-09 12:38 pm (UTC)He bored now with feeling sorry for his self.
Today we all say OH Mr Momus he know a LOT.
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Date: 2008-02-09 09:53 pm (UTC)He like to be mega artist but we know better. He ULTRA artist. I think so.
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Date: 2008-02-09 12:44 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-02-09 12:45 pm (UTC)Word association
Date: 2008-02-09 01:00 pm (UTC)Rotterdam = The Beautiful South
Your post has got me singing the perfect ten. I'm unhappy.
wewillbecome.com
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Date: 2008-02-09 01:03 pm (UTC)In fact, just like the Stock Exchange! Hurrah!
The Pro-Bling Phantom Turbocapitalist
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Date: 2008-02-09 01:35 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-02-09 05:13 pm (UTC)According to his interview in the current Art Review:
liam gillick on vernissage TV
Date: 2008-02-09 08:48 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-02-09 10:21 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-02-09 10:25 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-02-10 08:09 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-02-10 09:45 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-02-10 11:01 am (UTC)But those teenager girls are pretty cute but Momus don't think they women he think they baby factories and put them in blenders cause of their yip yap yip yap and no kitchen sandwich making
(no subject)
Date: 2008-02-10 12:49 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-02-09 10:51 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-02-09 10:56 pm (UTC)Maybe he get bad feeling from name? Or jus lazyboones?
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Date: 2008-02-09 10:58 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-02-09 11:40 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-02-10 04:27 am (UTC)I'm also curious about why you get so particularly angsty and peevish at weekends, rattling the door handles like desperate ghouls or a sad grey sirocco.
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Date: 2008-02-10 05:45 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-02-10 08:53 am (UTC)"when progressive art institutions are raising questions that no-one else is"
You should get out into the pubs more. Just kidding, not.
(no subject)
Date: 2008-02-10 04:29 am (UTC)does being annoying mean am not any momos
i left the scene thinking i was finishing something
but the blacks will always be right
the music we make is jist for me
dont fear the buildings are made by man
the language was made by man
worship the beautiful harbour
my happy little prince
can you see me
pepermint piper blue
Date: 2008-02-10 04:36 am (UTC)give me the twilight
give me evening song
done thinking about pride
i lost the fight
i never started to want your respect
jist want to hide in your arms forever
anonoymus
Date: 2008-02-10 04:43 am (UTC)dance to the make up
history the future be
the goat to nurish
ran ran running
hide beside the blushing stream
i like palermo and kalermick karen yeah yeah
helmans guiding me
art is freedom
money is death
wide
Date: 2008-02-10 04:49 am (UTC)where big cuddly socks
mock the docker
at your pearl
the oysters open
narcotics broken
these fraudulent bhoys
will be forever forgotten
my seat is sodden
whats so funny about jonnie
reject the man
Date: 2008-02-10 04:56 am (UTC)the persisting feeline
above reality
below the elephants waiting
for the human exit
Re: anonoymus
Date: 2008-02-10 04:58 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-02-10 05:19 am (UTC)hey nick i dont wanna be annoymus anymore
Date: 2008-02-10 05:39 am (UTC)she does the beatles swell i wish i could work in the digital soup
all the boxes are empty java script wont enable i cant watch u tube or even down lode flash ..can u help ..i wantyou towant me to want you to want me to want you.....
mister ..
are you up up late or awake early..
what you think about kings of leon
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Date: 2008-02-10 06:17 am (UTC)Re: hey nick i dont wanna be annoymus anymore
Date: 2008-02-10 06:18 am (UTC)In my humble opinion Kings of Leon are rubbish, sorry!
Re: hey nick i dont wanna be annoymus anymore
Date: 2008-02-10 06:53 am (UTC)upper west..
come to glasgow and record a single with me and brother ray professor improv orchestra dude..play a gig.when are you free....is may too soon..
whats the right way to go about such matters?
greenowl71@hotmail.com..
Re: hey nick i dont wanna be annoymus anymore
Date: 2008-04-05 02:09 pm (UTC)cOld blOOded Old times
get a lastfm account
ye well know who i am
greenowl