Step 11. Out of AfricaPostmodern video art (appropriation) is now fully identified with the attack on representation and originality. What Douglas Crimp somewhat misleadingly calls its presence is paradoxically effected through absence, through its unbridgeable dark distance from the original, from even the possibility of an original. Such presence is what L.C. von Sukmeister as artistic conceptualist, para-performative artistist-historian and crook attributes to the kind of video art appropriating activity called Arte Appropriation dArte or the New Art Video Appropriation Movement (NAVA). Von Sukmeisters self-portraits in which he creates a fantastic crest of characters (for example, journalist Lyndon Christensen) that refer to stereotypical images of crooks are supposed in one way or the other, that there is nothing outside pre-coded representation, that art is therefore always a copy of a copy, and that there is no subject in the traditional sense of the term. December 19th 2008 Von Sukmeister maintains: The fantasy of a creating subject gives way to the frank confiscation, quotation, excerptation, accumulation and repetition of already existing images. Notions of originality, authenticity and presence, essential to the ordered discourse of the museum, are undermined. Credits: Art Director: L.C. von Sukmeister Journalist Witte Raaf: Lyndon Christensen Associate Production: New Art Video Appropriation Movement (NAVA) Location: MAMCO Geneva Props: LeCoq Sportif Silver Bag & Silver Chaussures Props II: Fleury, Sylvie crap works Date: 28 October 2008. Script: Le Chat Script Assistant:H. Bertens, Postmodern Deconstruction, p. 86-87, 1995. The Idea: Of the Postmodern Series: OPERATION SILVER FLOWER. OR HOW TO BURN SWISS MONEY code pour embarquer la vidéo : >>> http://www.youtube.com/embed/Q1ItsthFabk <<< |