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Reflection and Thinking
Are we really liberated from ritualistic art?
The era of the disappearance of aura, according to Walter Benjamin, functions as a liberation by allowing people to see the world in another way, not in a human-established order.
Technologies that provide new visual information and experiences play a role in cracking a space where full of repetitive labour that is hopeless for modern people like dynamite. In other words, Benjamin did not see the emergence of new media as merely art-related, but he reckoned it is a function that people can look at the world from various angles by learning new senses.
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free from what?
“Changing the question 'free from what?' into 'free for what?'; this change that occurs when freedom has been achieved has accompanied me on my migrations like a basso continuo. This is what we are like, those of us who are nomads, who come out of the collapse of a settled way of life.”
― Vilém Flusser
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We become what we behold. We shape our tools and then our tools shape us.
Marshall McLuhan
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With the arrival of electric technology, man has extended, or set outside himself, a live model of the central nervous system itself. To the degree that this is so, it is a development that suggests a desperate suicidal autoamputation, as if the central nervous system could no longer depend on the physical organs to be protective buffers against the slings and arrows of outrageous mechanism.
Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man
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Making Experiment 5
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I made an extra shape with urethane foam. I thought of mold chunks and made them. This was used as a color experiment. Since the size is quite large, it was decided to use a spray paint that dries quickly and is uniformly distributed over a large area. Several colors were used to express mold, and after coloring, it looked more like a rock than mold. So I decided to use only two colours instead of using various colours.
I also experimented with the texture of mould using grass powder, which seemed to make it look more like a rock. I don't think I should use grass powder. In addition, if I spray too much paint, the texture of the foam becomes difficult to see, and it is expressed as a simple lump.
In order to make the texture more visible, it is likely that light and dark colors should be used to create shading.
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Reference Work
Kathleen Ryan
Kathleen Ryan’s exhibition is a study of grossly overripe fruit: Fleshy chunks of festering “watermelon” are dispersed across two rooms while a twisted stem of deflated “grapes” regally occupies a third. Glimmering and putrescent, these enlarged, human-size sculptures of spoiled fruit are adorned with a seemingly infinite number of multicolored glass beads and semiprecious stones whose placement convincingly replicates the otherworldly abstractions of creeping mold spores. As contemporary bedfellows to sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Dutch vanitas of rotting food, they entangle excess with refuse and rebrand abjection as seduction.
The underbellies of Ryan’s six bejeweled watermelon sculptures reveal sharp slivers of aluminum, dispelling the illusion of organicity. Fabricated from the hull of a scavenged Airstream camper, these metal rinds make up another experiment in dissection, this one executed on the manufactured object. In Bad Melon (Big Chunk) (all works 2020), the Airstream’s window and antennae protrude from what appears to be a huge, studded mound of rancid fruit pulp. The large flap of metal in Bad Melon (Wedge) resembles a Sputnik fragment with a teeming outgrowth of cell-like gems. Strewn about the space, these equally repulsive and attractive objects create a strange mortal-industrial wasteland tinged with the trappings of luxury.
https://www.artforum.com/picks/kathleen-ryan-82395
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