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eats, 28oct04
it seems to me that a few things were discussed that are worth recording for reference as we develop this exhibition and propel our catalogue.
1. you mentioned the aesthetic agenda of the group. i believe you called it the gimmick? there has been a certain wip quality to pieces that we have produced, whether they are actual process artifacts or conclusions (although you didnt see it, the board for habitat had a certain work’d quality). there have been some discrepancies in this aesthetic. what comes to mind is the presentation of pentagon as homogeneous computer renderings and drawings (except my vignettes, which you apparently thought were worthless, which even still were rather self-conscious). i dont think we need to force ourselves to scrawl on a fine rendering with mspaint or to tape an insurgent to the grotto, but perhaps we have not given enough thought to our agenda; perhaps it is against our principles to even be discussing whether we have an agenda or an aesthetic, i believe it would be.
2. ex_nihilo is an allegorical representation of both our working methods and our relationship with the status quo of cultural production. is ex_nihilo really a project that is separate from pentagon, 93, fort, or whathaveyou, or is it an underlay that is continually being developed, along with our wikifesto, to continually inform and support (and in some cases give context to) the work. what i believe is that ex_nihilo is actually the realm of the work.group, and that in the exhibition it should play a structuring role rather than appearing as a singular goal oriented project like habitat.
3. there should be some facet of the exhibition that interactively promotes our theories of collaboration. i take your anecdotes to heart because i know i would be somewhat reticent to interact with a gallery piece that seemed like a manufactured collaborative situation. i think it will have to be more subtle than the bucket of pencils on a desk and more obvious than the pair of wire strippers on a pedestal. it is going to be tough to keep this idea from being trite and i think the approach will come to us once we get started thinking about what the actual artifacts in the exhibition can and should be.
tagged: authorship, eats, installation, marquis, meeting-minutes
hey rubes, we have a new projekt folder online; welcome to marquis, the repository and laboratory for the development of the jensen gallery installation, ruminations on celebrity, and backdated projekt work.
tagged: invocation, marquis
m. moore and m. trefry are the current manifestation of the work.group, a community and an allegorical action of creativity at work on a community. each project undertaken is a phase in the life of the community. the work.group, being a decentralized endeavour, is made physical by the external references of its members and the internal language of its own history.
loci and foci
harlem: conflict, appliqué, non-sequitur
atlanta: freedom, wit, theft
cheviot hills: anachronism, rigour, skepticism
agendas are made to be burned; get back to work.
tagged: constitution, marquis
