After reading the two selected readings, I'm unsure how I feel about it. Playgerism continues to reinforce the cut-up method and once again stresses that little is original, much is the work of others turned around and decorated up a little. Really it makes me feel most unimpressed with great artists, and a little irritated.
The question of exactly 'what is original' was covered in class also, little I'd say. Everything is a piece of something of the past.
What the true question is, is copying, playgirising, or whatever you want to call it, something that you feel correct/morally right doing? Is it something that should be changed? We all copy to some degree, or else we wouldn't learn anything.
Detournement is something a little different, remixing to spew your own thoughts and ideals at the same audience. It's a little more forceful and inclusive of what the artist has on their mind, or a message they want to send.
What is it that you want to send?
http://www.remixthebook.com/the-course/detournement
http://www.remixthebook.com/the-course/playgiarism
I am so tired.
My work on this last project has gone poorly, after this break I had ment to have a lot more done. Instead, all heck broke loose.
Work is a pain, and hard to balance.
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