[Frameworks] Value systems
Value as a reference today strikes me as dated. It draws on a period when art as commodity was an interesting question. Restrictions on freedom of expression are back. It's time to examine the renewal of conservativism in media art. To propose a term for critical study: professional responsibility. Not the debate between modernist and post-modernist experimental film. Not the relevance of "avant-garde." Performance art's history is really to the point. We see a transformation of performance art's provocations into not only gallery-safe work but a kind of artistic administrator's ideal. Apologies for the obscurity. Bernie ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
Re: [Frameworks] Value systems
Oh and . . this encounter with a provocative work tends to draw ALL attention to it AS provocation, to the detriment of the work. That's the real price of a restrictive environment. It' s not just a price paid in terms of the interest new work generates. It's certainly not just a question of having some kind of political "impact." The greatest price is that of interpretation. You get really dumb fixations on work if there isn't a serious investigation of what gets passed off as "provocation." Bernie From: Bernard Roddy To: "frameworks@jonasmekasfilms.com" Sent: Sunday, November 20, 2011 8:06 AM Subject: [Frameworks] Value systems Value as a reference today strikes me as dated. It draws on a period when art as commodity was an interesting question. Restrictions on freedom of expression are back. It's time to examine the renewal of conservativism in media art. To propose a term for critical study: professional responsibility. Not the debate between modernist and post-modernist experimental film. Not the relevance of "avant-garde." Performance art's history is really to the point. We see a transformation of performance art's provocations into not only gallery-safe work but a kind of artistic administrator's ideal. Apologies for the obscurity. Bernie ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
Re: [Frameworks] Travelogues
Hello Adam this one was shot from the balcony & roof of the hotel i was staying in (i was in nouakchott for a week); edit approved by the local film-makers though (wanted to make sure i wasn't misrepresenting ...) http://www.moiratierney.net/nouakchott.htm (very basic info) what are you compiling the films for? cheers Moira www.moiratierney.net www.soluscollective.org From: Adam R. Levine To: Experimental Film Discussion List Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2011 12:41 PM Subject: [Frameworks] Travelogues Hello you, I am trying to pull together a list of experimental films that either fall directly under the category of "travelogue" or bear witness to travel and distance from a point of origin on the part of the filmmaker. These would not be so much ethnographic works which are part of a sustained cultural exchange, but films made as a result of the filmmaker "passing through" and acknowledging the looming spectre/problem/pleasure of "the tourist film". Warren Sonbert, perhaps John Smith's "The Hotel Diaries"? I'm sure there are others...but can you name them? Thanks/Grazie/Kiitos! ARL ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
