Bob,
Now we are into it ;o)
Peeter ... it's a very "Pythonesque"
I even didn't try to be serious.
Postmodern art (and thought) favors reflexivity and self-consciousness, fragmentation and discontinuity (especially in narrative structures), ambiguity, simultaneity, and an emphasis on the destructured, decentered, dehumanized subject."
Well, note in the above quote "decentered" - yur gallery submission fails this test by being so central ;o)
Well, I didn't also sy that MY picture is postmodernist, but the activity/person there is.
Methodologically speaking he is blending telecommunications with art and with paparatzing. The result might come out absolutely postmodern. He is praying towards multitude of gods, starting with Apollon (the rock-star), ending with ... well, again Apollon (fine arts), but in the middle part embracing all the others, mainly Saturnus and Kronos.
Me -- I have to keep him in the middle, while he is the axis of the idea. It makes HIM stand in the middle, not the subject of his art (interest). Somehow HE is more important than the subject. The action/process determines everything. That makes the whole process decentralized, as the center loses its meaning.
The irony is (in suburban environs at least) that many people now communicate daily with others they have never met the other side of the world ... but never even speak to thier next door neighbors ;o)
This even happens with the end-of-the-world local villages, which are by no means functional units any more, but random aggragations of random people. Funny -- semiotically speaking in such villages people live inbetween two sign systems. Nearly noone remembers the previous microtoponymics, while noone yet knows the new one (streets and numbers etc.). The addresses are very peculiar, kind of: "the guy who is working in the post-office is living in the third house from the corner, the first door, ground floor, the right-hand appartment". Somehow it mimics the URL. UNIX rules!
The denegration of academia - knowlege of ancient Greek history being replaced by the cult of modern celebrity - if you can't think harder, just don't think ...
Don't worry -- there are still Heracles, Xenia and Conan!!! :o(
Consumers are the cornerstone of a capitalist society - if they don't ask questions and just buy new - they are better consumers. In technology, Modernism was new and useful: Postmodenism is progress for it's own sake ...
The world is anyway divided into two halves. Paraphrasing Saint-Exupery: "Oh, there comes a customer!" said the merchant.
Err, exactly ... don't ask why you buy or the capitalist bubble bursts !!!
You have no time or opportunity to ask -- You are too busy with buying.
Bob (Ps ... While Qkano could have been my real name - somehow people in the West can't pronounce it)
Well, we have lots of barbarian vocalisms . . .
Peeter
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