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The Library of the University of Pennsylvania is currently hosting an exhibit on the "assemblings" created by mail artists and other networking artists and poets.
The catalog is online as a series of PDFs. The part that caught my interest particularly is this section on "intimate bureaucracies." (901 K)
"Assemblings often use advertising images, mass-media images, and bureaucratic norms and procedures. Instead of a dismissal of modernity for some transcendent escape from the society of spectacles and red-tape tangles, the artists involved pushed those quintessential forms of our bureacratized lives to new interpretations of contemporary and future cultures. ... The tone is indicative of what I call 'intimate bureaucracy': a mobilization of modern forms for other ends." This particularly struck me because for the past ten years or so I have periodically released work under the imprint of "Central Services," a fictional bureaucracy which some readers of this site may dimly recall... Labels: art, capitalism
Saturday, March 02, 2002
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