Radicant part 3

Marcel Duchamp, Fountain, 1917


The readymade offers the possibility for common objects to attain artistic stature. It's a gesture of choice rather than production. The second point is indifference, the work is lacking visually. "This idea of indifference is closer to certain concepts of Eastern philosophy: the Taoist principle of non-action (Wu wei), or, still more, that joyous form of indifference to the world, linked to the feeling of impermanence, that is the basis of Buddhism." The third idea is displacement. The readymade is most potent in the context of the museum which confirms its authority as art.
Marcel Duchamp, L.H.O.O.Q.
Philippe Parreno and Pierre Huyghe

"All human production that does not conform to a logic of profit maximization thereby acquires the de facto status of an antiquated worker's practice known in France as perruque, a practice that consists of using factory tools and machines outside of normal work hours in order to produce objects for personal use or for an undeclared job."

"It was a lie, of course; every society is born of aleatory circumstances, but after the fact a narrative is devised that finds a foundation for this chaos in natural order."
Kim Soo-Ja
Pascale Marthine Tayou

Global economy is capable of functioning in real time on a planetary scale.
Thomas Hirschhorn
Subodh Gupta

"To practice citation is to appeal to an authority: in measuring him- or herself against the master, the artist claims a place in a historical lineage and thereby legitimates first of all his or her own position, but also, tacitly, a vision of culture in which signs unequivocally 'belong' to an author (artist x or y), to whom the present work refers, ironically, aggressively, or admiringly."
Sam Durant

"'the Age of Access' amounts to a progressive devaluation of property. When a buyer acquires a an item, he explains, his or her relationship with the seller is short-lived. With a rental, by contrast, the relationship with the provider is ongoing." "In aesthetic terms, what is dying is the mode of acquisition, replaced by a generalized practice of access to experience, whose object has become merely a means. This is a logical evolution of the capitalist system: power, in the past based on landed property (space), has slowly shifted toward pure capital (time, during which money 'works').