  Online nowLaodan- laodan is a 56 year old guy from Wisconsin, USA.
- Likes 1,585 pages, 24 videos, 8 photos • 227 fans • Received 64 reviews
- Member since Aug 08, 2005
Visit my website
THE WAY THINGS ARE: The meaning of life is to be found in thinking about what is reality and the beauty of reality is to be found in our DNA's memorization of all forms that have been successfully retained along the four billion years of evolution of the principle of life on Gaia our earth. In the end what I mean to say is that beauty is something objective and what we call ugliness is then simply our unconscientious feel of something evolution did not retain.
Launch my Music Player
Favorites » His Blog
-
If Martians curated an exhibition, what would it contain? Adrian Searle finds out | Art &Architecture | guardian.co.uk Arts
-
Mar 6, 8:30am
1 review
•http://arts.guardian.co.uk/art/visual...
-
If Martians put together an exhibition of Earth art, what would it contain?
in The Guardian by Adrian Searle
... the Martian view of things is curiously narrow. Perhaps it is the humans doing their bidding who are having the problem. Many people, including critics and curators, have as much problem with art as your average alien. I, for one, am happy to admit that I do not know exactly what art is: I know what is called art, but that's not the same thing. Talking about what's good and bad art gets us into even more trouble.
Art performs different functions, and not only at different times and in different places. We squabble and quibble and fight over it, beat each other over the head with it, and shove it in places it was never meant to go. Art appears to be central to our various human cultures, but to frequently masquerade as marginal, uncategorisable, and even useless.
 If Martians put together an exhibition of Earth art, what would it contain?
The curse of the blockbuster
Meteorite Lands on Buckingham Palace, 1998, by Cornelia Parker. 54 x 69 cm. Maple boxed frame map of London revealing burn mark left by a meteorite
Photograph: British Council
I don't believe one instant that aliens reaching earth could be so dumb as humans not to know the function that art exercises in societies. At least Adrian Searle is honest to recognize that ".... I do not know exactly what art is: I know what is called art, but that's not the same thing." But an alien specie that reaches earth could not be so ignorant, for, without art it could not have survived the negative consequences of the rational and mechanistic thought otherwise necessary to devise the tools and machinery to reach earth.
If humanity is to survive the totalitarian destructiveness of modernity I believe that this can only occur by solving the question "what is art". This question reflects on who we are and how we are interrelated with all life and everything under the whole in which we are such tiny particles...
If interested to read more about my take on "what is art" click here:
 Artsense
|
Add him as a friend >
