Comments on: Becoming the Art Giant (with giants) at MoMA http://words.raisecain.net/2009/12/24/becoming-the-art-giant-with-giants-at-moma/ Humans fear the darkness, and so they scrape away at the edges of it with fire. - Rei Ayanami Tue, 31 Aug 2010 04:52:01 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Magdalena O! · Shitty Shit Shit + The Pompidou http://words.raisecain.net/2009/12/24/becoming-the-art-giant-with-giants-at-moma/comment-page-1/#comment-875 Magdalena O! · Shitty Shit Shit + The Pompidou Mon, 09 Aug 2010 11:39:10 +0000 http://words.raisecain.net/?p=533#comment-875 [...] more of a weaved narrative able to work through art history without just projecting ‘giants‘. At first I was excited to be surrounded by women’s art but I’ve also been [...] [...] more of a weaved narrative able to work through art history without just projecting ‘giants‘. At first I was excited to be surrounded by women’s art but I’ve also been [...]

]]> By: ryan manning http://words.raisecain.net/2009/12/24/becoming-the-art-giant-with-giants-at-moma/comment-page-1/#comment-730 ryan manning Thu, 21 Jan 2010 11:21:34 +0000 http://words.raisecain.net/?p=533#comment-730 i like this project i like this project

]]> By: Magda O! http://words.raisecain.net/2009/12/24/becoming-the-art-giant-with-giants-at-moma/comment-page-1/#comment-724 Magda O! Mon, 28 Dec 2009 03:34:04 +0000 http://words.raisecain.net/?p=533#comment-724 I'm not suggesting it's any different or the same really. I mean, I was at MoMA and all these people are just taking photos over & over again & it got me thinking of Benjamin's Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction & how visual art is so different than recorded music as it's so limited (sometimes even to one copy) but with photography it's so easily recreated and we don't have to take the time to look at the art because we can just take a photo with it, and there it is and there we are - I wasn't trying to make a political statement for the sake of it, but just be playful with the art, which is why I specifically only chose to stand in front of the large pieces by the 'giants' of the art world and not any of the pieces. I guess it is different in the way I approached the art work and how I decided to become part of it, by trying to even blend it with some of them. The last piece I also chose to pose differently because of the message behind me. It was just really fun to be honest, and I enjoyed being allowed to interact with paintings, something not really done or encouraged in traditional art spaces. And you're definitely not coming off as snarky! I'm so happy to have some opinion on what I say/post, I need it. I find it so boring when people are too passive to say anything that might be deemed as bitchy or dissenting or whatever, ya know? I’m not suggesting it’s any different or the same really. I mean, I was at MoMA and all these people are just taking photos over & over again & it got me thinking of Benjamin’s Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction & how visual art is so different than recorded music as it’s so limited (sometimes even to one copy) but with photography it’s so easily recreated and we don’t have to take the time to look at the art because we can just take a photo with it, and there it is and there we are – I wasn’t trying to make a political statement for the sake of it, but just be playful with the art, which is why I specifically only chose to stand in front of the large pieces by the ‘giants’ of the art world and not any of the pieces.

I guess it is different in the way I approached the art work and how I decided to become part of it, by trying to even blend it with some of them. The last piece I also chose to pose differently because of the message behind me. It was just really fun to be honest, and I enjoyed being allowed to interact with paintings, something not really done or encouraged in traditional art spaces.

And you’re definitely not coming off as snarky! I’m so happy to have some opinion on what I say/post, I need it. I find it so boring when people are too passive to say anything that might be deemed as bitchy or dissenting or whatever, ya know?

]]> By: decantering http://words.raisecain.net/2009/12/24/becoming-the-art-giant-with-giants-at-moma/comment-page-1/#comment-723 decantering Fri, 25 Dec 2009 07:23:50 +0000 http://words.raisecain.net/?p=533#comment-723 interesting take - but is it really different from the other concretizing effort, when you know that behind it all it's still you? (I hope this isn't coming off as snarky, I don't mean to - I am just genuinely wondering. I find myself not bringing the camera with me at all to art galleries anymore because of the said catch-22, just my notebook) /and merry christmas, if you celebrate it. interesting take – but is it really different from the other concretizing effort, when you know that behind it all it’s still you?

(I hope this isn’t coming off as snarky, I don’t mean to – I am just genuinely wondering. I find myself not bringing the camera with me at all to art galleries anymore because of the said catch-22, just my notebook)

/and merry christmas, if you celebrate it.

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