I know that I dropped a TedTalk on you a while ago, but that site never ceases to amaze. Cate dug this one up, and I should have posted it a while ago.
Note that if you have trouble watching the video here, or want to surf the TedTalk site (recomended) and still haven't figured out that most of the titles in my blog are links, click through... HERE!
TEDTalks : Gregory Colbert
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Gregory Colbert's video, as well as an exhibit of his photography, is permanently housed in an impermanent place: The Nomadic Museum. No worries, though, it will probably never come anywhere near where you live. Since 2002 it has visited Venice, New York, Santa Monica (i.e. suburban L.A.) and now Tokyo. I'm thinking that Canada is pretty far down the list.
Cheers
Showing posts with label photography. Show all posts
Showing posts with label photography. Show all posts
Friday, June 22, 2007
Thursday, May 17, 2007
If you record it, it's definitely art
As cool as some ideas are, I wonder if they are all art. How many steps in the process are required? If you have too much time on your hands and do something quirky is that really art, or just puttering around in the shop?
One line of thinking could insist, or at least suggest, that it has to be commodified first. Turned into a form and set into a process where others can consume it. If you can't get people to come into your shop to admire it (if not actually purchase it), then you have to get it into a gallery, craft-fair or cafe.
So there has to be an audience.
If this line of reasoning has merit, then every quirky person should seriously consider taking up photography. No matter what you decide to do with your morning, if you take pictures of it, it is instantly commodified. I suppose that film-making could serve the same purpose, but it is more expensive and the commodity is less compact and portable, YouTube aside.
I also contend that film-making is too much process, because people expect a higher degree of artifice in their films -- even the ones that are praised as being "gritty realism", "cinema verite", or "slice of life" to name just a few common descriptions of very different sorts of films. As Guy Madden recently noted, "No one wants to watch the security tape". Especially if it is just recording the static outcome of an artists labours. Or maybe that's just me.
So if you intend to spend your summer mending spider webs then you should take a photography course in the next few weeks. Your art will have more legs... er, so to speak.
Cheers
One line of thinking could insist, or at least suggest, that it has to be commodified first. Turned into a form and set into a process where others can consume it. If you can't get people to come into your shop to admire it (if not actually purchase it), then you have to get it into a gallery, craft-fair or cafe.
So there has to be an audience.
If this line of reasoning has merit, then every quirky person should seriously consider taking up photography. No matter what you decide to do with your morning, if you take pictures of it, it is instantly commodified. I suppose that film-making could serve the same purpose, but it is more expensive and the commodity is less compact and portable, YouTube aside.
I also contend that film-making is too much process, because people expect a higher degree of artifice in their films -- even the ones that are praised as being "gritty realism", "cinema verite", or "slice of life" to name just a few common descriptions of very different sorts of films. As Guy Madden recently noted, "No one wants to watch the security tape". Especially if it is just recording the static outcome of an artists labours. Or maybe that's just me.
So if you intend to spend your summer mending spider webs then you should take a photography course in the next few weeks. Your art will have more legs... er, so to speak.
Cheers
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