Comments on: DJ Detox-Joy Divisions Art Show Is Today Mix

By: wes flexner

wes flexner — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 01:12:24 +0000

david icke+zizek vs.

By: jimi

jimi — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 00:06:16 +0000

This is a really weird argument.

By: Jack Handy

Jack Handy — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 18:59:20 +0000

I do art that wasn’t in the show. I’m mad.
Illustrator/ pottery barn 4 lyfe.

By: Christian

Christian — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 18:51:49 +0000

what’s so amazing about really deep thoughts?

By: Wes Flexner

Wes Flexner — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 18:38:29 +0000

I haven’t counted.

A few things that may negate your concerns:

-Michael Stickrod’s essay discusses his tenure working for the Fortnuff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies. He was hired for the Denkmal fur die ermordeten(Memorial to the murdered Jews of Europe) project.
This archive he cut and edited has over 4,300 testomonies from 10,000 hours of video tape and how that affected his approach to making his film that was in the show.

-The curator Eva Ball brought up Adorno’s 1949 statement “it is barbaric to write poetry after Auschwietz” statement for the reader to think about.

The whole catalog wasn’t about the holocaust though..

There are plenty of writings applying the thoughts of Zizek, Foucalt, Lacan and others to the art in show and Joy Division.

My main point is that, this show wasn’t a bunch of hipsters drawing swazi;s on waterski’s.

It was professors, filmmakers, scholars, artists, filmmakers and intellectuals of various statures covering a lot ground.

But none of it was done lightly or with the slightest attempt at irony.

The show and after-party was well-attended. Homeless people got a meal. Joy Division was played in downtown open air. A lot catalogues were sold.

So the true essence of this show is already resonating with a substantial amount of people.

Sorry you missed it.

By: LB

LB — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 18:25:19 +0000

all i know is the afterparty at Skylab was the shit.
it may not have been really “deep” and thought provoking, though it was a good celebration of the band Joy Division. (imho)

peace.

By: ns solider

ns solider — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 16:36:22 +0000

jew

By: weed$teeler

weed$teeler — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 15:58:13 +0000

i skipped to hang out at the cap, with the yp’s…….

the point of art is to make you feel something.
if this show made you feel something it worked.
if it didnt it was a show of fan art.
fan art is cool.
so again it worked.

By: matt

matt — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 03:42:27 +0000

actually you are both incorrect. the proper spelling is dilemma. the spelling nazi can rest at last knowing that all is right with the world. did you like how i worked in the nazi reference. get it?

By: mike carney

mike carney — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 03:34:32 +0000

being a shapeshifter must be very tiresome and confusing. having the inability to identify oneself because of constant flux sounds really real. a good way to deal with that would be to maintain a firm grip on the things around you. i would probably prefer the symbolic real rather than the really real myself, so we seem to have more than a few things in common.