This is a response to the reading on "The Temporary Autonomous Zone, Ontological Anarchy, Poetic Terrorism"
I couldn't help but find the art movements on the site http://www.hermetic.com/bey/taz_cont.html to hold a sense of wonder and excitement to them. I found them to be amazing! Maybe I just seem to hold interest uncoventional art that plays with peoples reactions and everyday "norm."
However, I did find the articles to be very similiar to the Yoko Ono instructions. Although these seemed to hold a more aggresive tone to them than her instructions. Yet, I feel they left you excited with the tasks described accompanied by the author's opinions of what is art, what is not, and the emphasis the media has on either.
For instance, the Poetic Terrorism frequently cried out to it's reader instructions of art more so than Yoko's instructions. I felt as if that art was a thing that couldn't be confined, controlled, or categorized. That it was something shocking, something illegal, something that should continuously encourage one thing, a public reaction. "Art is crime. Crime is Art," is what the Poetic Terrorism's idea stands by.
I feel with all of the instructions it is loaded with a sense of excitement of possible performing one of these tasks. Maybe, if I read I will actually go through with the passage's commands.
If I do, I hope to show pictures of to the whole class.
Both Art Sabotage and Pirate Utopia evoked similiar feelings.
However, I think with either Art Sabotage and Poetic Terrorism that each should be taken with skeptical approach as they both require destruction of some sort to create beauty.
I also loved the approach that Pirate Utopia Internet Piracy as if it were a thing to exist in the 18th century. When there were real pirates.
Comments (1)
I had a similar feeling about these pieces when I first read them (and still do!)
Posted by Andy Cox | October 2, 2007 12:40 AM
Posted on October 2, 2007 00:40