Re: LIFESCIENCE: Re: misdirections

["Prof. Dr. Birgit Richard" <B.Richard@kunst.uni-frankfurt.de>]

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LIFESCIENCE
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Ewan Stefani schrieb:

> Richard schrieb:
> "to create art you have to have some utopian view into the future "
> Are you saying that art *cannot* be created without this?
>

no not necessary in the creating process but there will always be expectations
for the future in it perhaps well hidden.

> Is art really designed to consciously fulfill a future role all the time?

no not conciously, but if you look at a piece of art located in a certain time
it will say something about the time and its living conditions as well as you
may interprete something out of contemporary youth cultures. these are all
interpretations and discourses around the phenomena

> What if the artist has no knowledge of the wider cultural and historical
> implications of his / her work of art?
>

an artist does not have to have this but she or he lives in a certain time

> "art always refers to something"
> Of course, but the something may be indescribable.
>

that is very important that there is always an unspeakable and undescribable
rest, therefor it is art. you may not decode it.

> "or [to] develop different concepts of world regards"
> Do you mean to develop communication between nations or societies?
>

this may be a very important thing to do for art too, but i meant to show other
possible worlds like the projected virtual reality worlds.

> "so this is the point of view of very conservative art historian telling
> you have to wait 50 years to tell something about an piece of art"

> I agree, but perhaps we now create too self-consciously, too much to feed
> future discussion, too much to win the next grant, competition or
> publication!

no i do not think so, because it is important to talk about these topics as
much as possible talking about art and social implication or the function of
aesthetics has a long tradition
regards
birgitr
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