October 2010
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Terms for Serial Art: Mel Bochner
Certain terms, not common in an art context, are necessary for a discussion of serial art. As yet, these terms, often abused have remained undefined. Some of the following definitions are standard, some are derived from the above investigations, the rest are tailored to specific problems of the work itself:
Abstract System A system in which the physical units that are to function as objects have...
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“Pay no attention to what the critics say… Remember, a statue has never been set...”
– Jean Sibelius (via livejamie)
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“LeWitt: ‘although an order is immediately intuited, how to apprehend or...”
– Bochner, M. 1995. Serial Art, Systems, Solipsism. In Minimal Art: A Critical Anthology, ed. G. Battcock, 92 – 102. University of California Press: California. (101)
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“Serial Methodology: ‘the idea is carried out to its logical conclusion,...”
– Bochner, M. 1995. Serial Art, Systems, Solipsism. In Minimal Art: A Critical Anthology, ed. G. Battcock, 92 – 102. University of California Press: California.
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“Individual parts of a system are not in themselves important but are relevant...”
– Bochner, M. 1995. Serial Art, Systems, Solipsism. In Minimal Art: A Critical Anthology, ed. G. Battcock, 92 – 102. University of California Press: California. (99)
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“consistency and continuity of application that characterises them”
– Bochner, M. 1995. Serial Art, Systems, Solipsism. In Minimal Art: A Critical Anthology, ed. G. Battcock, 92 – 102. University of California Press: California. (95)
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“Systems are chracterized by regularity, thoroughness and repetition in execution”
– Mel Bochner. Serial Art, Systems, Solipsism. (94).
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“Manipulate order on different levels creating both conceptual and perceptual...”
– Mel Bochner. Serial Art, Systems, Solipsism. (93)
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“The essential nature of this activity is imprecise and can be located somewhere...”
– Do It. Edited by Hans Ulrich Obrist. (11)
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“Everyday actions and materials serve as the starting point for artworks to be...”
– Do It. Edited by Hans Ulrich Obrist (11).
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“NOW THERE IS NOTHING NOT RUN BY, REFERRING TO, OR BOUND BY SYSTEMICITY, IT...”
– Open Systems (77).
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“Much work of the 1960s and 1970s may be understood as addressing not only the...”
– Open Systems. (74-77).
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“The solipsist, by definition, cannot appropriate systems culled from outside him...”
– Open Systems (74)
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“Establishing one or several systems to keep the outside at bay, the solipsist...”
– Open Systems (73)
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“the purposelessness of purpose, to the spinning gears of a machine disconnected...”
– Lack of Function. Open Systems. (72)
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“a unique perceptual breakdown of conceptual order, into visual chaos”
– Open Systems (71).
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“while touted as founded on rigid logic and little else, LeWitts structures are...”
– Open Systems (71).
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About Serial Art, Systems, Solipsism by Mel...
‘posits the artist who uses serial methods as someone making work that is not merely self centred but out-and-out solipsistic’
‘Usually dealt as a slanderous jab, Bochner utilises the term affectionately, dubbing solipsistic serealists only those artists for whom he holds the highest respect’
Bochner admits that ‘no stylistic or material qualities unite the artists...
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“Early in life, we are told: You are not the centre of the universe. This...”
– Open Systems (70).
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“suggests that the potency of tautology lies in its equal ability to critique...”
– Open Systems (69). About Conceptual Art 62-69: from the aesthetics of adminisration to the critique of institutions. by Benjamin H D Buchloh (1990).
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“sybjectivity = therapeutic ego-titillation”
– Open Systems (68).
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“Taking up a model of ‘system’ rather than ascribing to any one of...”
– Open Systems (67/68).
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“making visible the myriad structures designed to contain and order”
– Open Systems (67)
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“The seemingly inherent bond - though perhaps really more a seductive anology -...”
– Open Systems (67).
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“artists were taking systems up abstractly, as materials themselves to be...”
– Open Systems (67)
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“Three variants of Post Minimalism were, in fact, provissionally united in...”
– Open Systems (66)
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“Postminimalism
1) Pictorial/Sculptural (Eva Hesse:material process)
2)...”
– Pincus Witten - from Open Systems
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“Like artists, children also easily ascribe animate properties to inanimate...”
– Mia Johnston, Teaching Children to Value Art and Artists.
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“I am an athiest but I do believe in art. I attend galleries the way my...”
– Unknown Source
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September 2010
88 posts
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“The creation of a documentary installation is…the true goal of any...”
– Open Systems: Rethinking Art (62).
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“The contemporary artist is once aga a technician, a producer. But now the artist...”
– Open Systems: Rethinking Art (62).
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“ART THAT PRACTISES THE MIMESIS OF THINKING, BY CONTRAST, CAUSES A SHIFT OF...”
– Open Systems: Rethinking Art (61).
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Thought Processes
Every installation represents a particular selection process that determines which objects are included and which excluded in an installation, and in which locations inside the space of the installation they must be placed according to the overall organisation of this space. The person responsible for the selection procedure is an individual artists, but every individual selection is supposed not...
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“Minimalist & post-Minimalist installations here become not only a place of...”
– Open Systems: Rethinking Art (60).
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“Hence, a summary becomes impossible, and the whole formalised and detailed...”
– Open Systems: Rethinking Art (60)
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“In search of an even more precise representation, the images become increasingly...”
– In reference to Ilya Kaakov, The Big Archive, 1993. In Open Systems: Rethinking Art (60).
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“The more one struggles to depict the system as a whole, the more one gets lost...”
– Ilya Kabokov. In Open Systems: Rethinking Art(60).
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“If, for example, artists are asked why they chose precisely this rule of...”
– Open Systems: Rethinking Art (60)
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“Thinking is understood to mean a step-by-step movement from one option to the...”
– Open Systems: Rethinking Art (56).
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“THINKING IS THE INFINITE PROGRESSIVE MOVEMENT, THE INFINITE ‘ET...”
– Open Systems: Rethinking Art (56) 