| In the Western psychological logics the feeling of vacuity is as a rule connected with down– conditions, with something depressive. Being “filled” with emptiness is something incomprehensible for such logics. But it is not incomprehensible for the logics of hardcore conceptualism/ minimalism, where all of the adrenalin flows out or rather flows in from hollows, empty production. For a conceptualist void is an intensive poetic drag, the quintessence of dry logics, pure materialization of flesh-free structure. |
the infinite number of artworks despite attempts by institutional critique, and its disciples, to demythify arts infrastructural and institutional procedures contemporary art remains wrapped in the popular imagination in codes and conspiracy theories: and the elevation of one artist or work over another considered an outcome of those codes and conspiracies. why else would singular artworks standout in a realm of oversupply, the sheer volume of artworks in circulation and their similitude. they hint at a marxian reading of the whole system - if all works are the same (just another number) some sort of fetishization or mythification has to be taking place to individuate, differentiate or over-value this or that "art work number 000001".
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nothing Similar to an archive, film stills which contain the phrase “nothing” in the subtitles have been collected. By pushing the scissors into the film reality, the blindfold of the Žižek-like false Reality is taken off and we, due to the iconized film stills, are left alone with the arbitrary meanings of “comic book fragments”. The visual from the cine film is deconstructed and decontextualized, the vacuum of meaning behind the frame — “nothing” — becomes the new mantra. The first stage of deconstruction as a practice emanating from post-structural philosophy is usually consciousness acquired through reversal of existing value hierarchies. Despite the literary critical bases it is almost a mathematical calculation, which almost automatically reveals the politicization of the familiar signifiers. By decontextualizing “nothing”, we deconstruct the normative world-view, the mediated reality. |
books about nothing zero-degree representation, pure desire and the noise of the observer. the titles have been taken from actual books and reprinted without original content (text, pictures, design).
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books about nothing zero-degree representation, pure desire and the noise of the observer. the titles have been taken from actual books and reprinted without original content (text, pictures, design).
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untitled, nothing |
The Anthology of Non-Existent Books While fiction-in-fiction as a literary technique is totally dependent on the context, this book skips over the frame story phase with a technical solution: the context for the non-existent books is the real world, instead of books. The Anthology consists of seventeen original bilangual Estonian-English experimental booklets by eighteen different authors, approaching from their own angle the endlessly variable motive of non-existent books. |
brackets The facilities of listening and talking as „brackets“ which restrain the flow of speech, in this case not speaking and not listening – a pause. Spinoza talks about absolute/substance as the cause of self, as the beginning of causality. Spinozas image of the absolute was that God is trapped in himself – that through some mystical determination (cause-effect) he is bound to be and to create. As if emptiness demanded creation. This emptiness/space is so powerful that even God himself has no free will for he has to exist beside nothingness (0). Moreover, he has to create, he is programmed to create something. Being and creating is almost the same. Brackets refer (emptily) to what is (or, in "brackets", is not) bracketed. In addition, "brackets" construct a feedback loop for channel noise as the blank author. |
Black Square Fade
Printing hundreds and hundreds of A4 pages with Black Square fading into white is referring to operational exhaustion and |
metanoia cellular structure with its mirror image is a whole. due to the shift a stair to the black hole appears |