C.F. wrote:
quoted 7 lines If you steal an entire song and release it as your own record,> If you steal an entire song and release it as your own record,
> it could STILL be called original art even if it doesn't have anything
> at all added to it. Didn't the KLF do it to ABBA's Dancing Queen a long
> time ago? They just released it in it's entirety on a single... and got
> their asses sued. They don't call themselves the Kopyright Liberation
> Front for nothing you know. They were trying to bring attention to the
> stupidity of copyrights and to question the idea of originality.
Word up -- remember Sherrie Levine, hip visual artist from the '80s
who rarely did anything more than take photographs of already famous
photographs and paint "exact replicas" of modern "masterpieces?"
It's all rather strange -- art used to be about "authenticity" (as *all*
of the arguments concerning "real IDM" on the list serve to indicate)
and "real meaning" -- but now the last recourse of testimonial to
"authenticity" lies in the irreducible identity and singularity of the
artist himself or herself -- his or her personality, which is seen as
the guaranteeing agency backing up artworks with the referential
authority they require in order to be recognized as "truly meaningful"
objects. The main subject of art used to be "God." Now it's
autobiography -- self as god. Hair snippets in an Aphex promo pack...
Japanese collectors paying millions of yen for tissues that Lennon wiped
his nose with...Jeff Koons injection-molding sculptures of he and
Cicciolina in various copulative poses...
All the competing *identities* on this list...why should we be immune
from this cultural logic? It's a short distance from stepping on
someone else's tastes to stepping on their "intellectual property
rights" these days...I can't wait until people start suing one another
for sampling samples of samples of samples....
what a wonderful drama all this "death of IDM" stuff has been -
endearing as an ostentatiously "suicidal" teenager! One who grows up to
be a world-famous artist, of course...at least for 15 minutes.
just a few thoughts
sr
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sd
NP: DM 'ultra' (oh, and P.S. to those bothered a while back by my
cluelessly hypothetical slagging off of Carl Cox - the 2nd deck has had
his System 7 mixes in it for about a week now. I'm eating some crow, and
loving every meaty beat of it.)