(RUSH INTRODUCTION COMMENT KC) I find this quote incredibly ambivalent. I mean, I do understand what Youngblood's trying to say. Sure, after Duchamp, compelling art has to bring into question the actual definition of art itself; artists today have to be artists and art theorists as well. But, life itself is so experimental, rather, it's so impossible to remove this experimental aspect out of any particular incident in "life" that this quote just doesn't suffice in really articulating anything substantial at least about art to me. Every single action we take will have an experimental aspect, an entirely new explorative aspect that cannot be ignored and will bring something into question, I believe the temporality of our existence is to blame. What I'm trying to say is that things are always changing therefore they are consequently experimental e.g. brushing your teeth tomorrow will never be exactly the same as brushing your teeth today; there will always be "untested ideas or techniques" in tomorrow's tooth brushing that cannot be 100 percent accounted for today. No one will ever be able to say the art of tooth brushing is finalized, there are no new endeavors to test or experiments to try. So saying "all art is experimental" is blatantly obvious to me. What isn't experimental? What isn't art? I would like to ask Gene Youngblood these questions.
(RUSH INTRODUCTION COMMENT KC)
ReplyDeleteI find this quote incredibly ambivalent. I mean, I do understand what Youngblood's trying to say. Sure, after Duchamp, compelling art has to bring into question the actual definition of art itself; artists today have to be artists and art theorists as well. But, life itself is so experimental, rather, it's so impossible to remove this experimental aspect out of any particular incident in "life" that this quote just doesn't suffice in really articulating anything substantial at least about art to me. Every single action we take will have an experimental aspect, an entirely new explorative aspect that cannot be ignored and will bring something into question, I believe the temporality of our existence is to blame. What I'm trying to say is that things are always changing therefore they are consequently experimental e.g. brushing your teeth tomorrow will never be exactly the same as brushing your teeth today; there will always be "untested ideas or techniques" in tomorrow's tooth brushing that cannot be 100 percent accounted for today. No one will ever be able to say the art of tooth brushing is finalized, there are no new endeavors to test or experiments to try. So saying "all art is experimental" is blatantly obvious to me. What isn't experimental? What isn't art? I would like to ask Gene Youngblood these questions.