THE ARTIST IS PUTRESCENT [Rotten] - A Critique of Marina Abramovic's art thrown as a leaflet during the performance @MoMA (New York City, 2012)
foto: Portrait with a Goat Head, 2018 (Galerie Krinzinger) THE ARTIST IS PUTRESCENT [Rotten] "The staring approach – scorn merited against those who tranquilly grovel before promised epiphanies. Sit for 45minutes and some times longer rummaging and scrambling for meaning, surveying a desolate shore….voyeurs toying in moralistic prostitution. Such is the contract between modern art, its successors, and a society whereby the modes of its own psychiatry are also its results. The next morning comes, and desperation follows. Drugs for the waking logic – the kind that substitute wellbeing for collapse – an adequate amount is swallowed daily. The private ritual of coffee, of breakfast or not, of getting in to the car, onto the subway. We may have a future together. The encouragement to participate in such a drama tickles our spleen. By pandering to the desolation of the audience and its tragic sensibilities, this art object subsumes all, as against the exteriority of the more...
