11 min. video, color, sound
2011
Jorn's original text critically attacked the Weimar Bauhaus' call: ARCHITECTS, SCULPTORS, PAINTERS: WE MUST ALL GO BACK TO BEING ARTISANS. He proposed instead that artists be engaged at the highest levels of theoretical and technological production. Yet, in light of the post-Fordist training of artists as the professionalized coordinators of linguistic performances and positions (the "ecuational turn" in art is one of its art historical manifestations) it may be time to reconsider the artisanal as an always already political venture and to explode the possibilities dormant in its repression within the context of conceptual art's hold on artistic formation in Western academia.
The video presents a moment of reflective pause and proposes a limited utopianism in the midst of a hyper-capitalist dystopian futurism.
Camel Collective's script was delivered at a performance of the Second Congress of Free Artists at the Aarhus Kunstbygning, November 2010.
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Exhibited at:
Little Movements-Self Practice in Contemporary Art, Contemporary Art Terminal (OCAT), Shenzhen, China, 2011
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