RHIZOME_RAW: beuys will be beuys

Today, U.S. president George W Bush declared that his war on terror was
actually a piece of "social sculpture" intended to be seen "as stimulants
for the transformation of the idea of sculpture. . . or of art in general."
Bush went on to propose that his true goal was not the toppling of murderous
despots or even the acquisition of oil but to "provoke thoughts about what
sculpture can be and how the concept of sculpting can be extended to the
invisible materials used by everyone," such as fear, fervor, prejudice,
vengeance, hate. Bush ended his remarks with the comment that activities
related to the war on terror would never be "fixed and finished," and that
"processes [would] continue in most of them: chemical reactions,
fermentations, color changes, decay, drying up. Everything is in a state of
change." Bush then waved to the enraptured crowd and joined them in a chorus
of God Bless America, while aides passed out bullets, gas masks and anthrax
vaccines.


-m

Comments

, ryan griffis

>
at least then it would be open to criticism that actually involves some concept of a political economy. in this ficticious world, would W next make porno poster ads (with Saddam) in the Wall Street Journal as his next art move?

, D42 Kandinskij

On Thu, 14 Nov 2002, ryan griffis wrote:

> at least then it would be open to criticism that actually involves some
> concept of a political economy. in this ficticious world, would W next
> make porno poster ads (with Saddam) in the Wall Street Journal as his
> next art move?

They'd be taking off their masks?
'Baring themselves' for the people they love and serve.
It would be an excellent move, and one demonstrating their
form commitment in policies 'for the good of the people'.

Then we could ask Rachel to plead self-destruction with us
for the future generations, for art (unfurls a flag), snif

Me, I thought art had high goals about actually liberating
humans from such cheap 'war'/'cause' self-destructive
martyr infantilism, but I always forget that it is not to
be, one must sacrifice onself at the edifice of modern art
(or G2K, or rhizome, just take your pick and martyr yourself,
will ya?)(puts ona feathered hat and breaks into a wagner opera)
One must die for the father/mother(land) (and since this
is art we have no land, so we just die for any frivolous remotely
artistic-looking cheap 'cause') ah well

Bye amigos, sniff.
(jumps from cliff)

Look, I leave my beautiful corpse. for futur generactions.
Der rhizome-auscwitz. Fertilizer of a new crop of victims.

`, . ` `k a r e i' ? ' D42