About Lucas Maassen's show in NYC , courtesy of David D:
"Utilising exclusive materials and technologies, a secondary layer of tension of conceiving objects arises. A toy chair made of pure gold, poured out of one bar of gold, raises the question of its value: emotional vs. real value. Likewise, a chair created by a Focus Electron Beam (FEB), results in a chair so small that even a regular microscope cannot reveal this seat. This chair is a leap of faith into technological authorship. Our day-to-day empirical reality is just not good enough to capture these objects. To what extent is technological culture able to transmit empirical experiences to our mindset? And moreover, our cultural tradition tells us that a chair has four legs but what happens when these notions are being challenged by a non-empirical, technological order?
Measuring up chairs to the extent that they seem to generate a life of their own; through a character derived from inner qualities beyond any man-conceived sphere, Maassen creates an imaginative order..."
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We are saying the complete opposite of this: "Our day-to-day empirical reality is just not good enough to capture these objects."
ReplyDeletei liked the part about "chairs generate a life of their own" -- independent of authorship perhaps? they are in essence purely functional objects -- ofcourse they can be decorated, altered, signified for different purposes (hitler used to sit on a chair higher than everyone else) but at some level, they are always going to be used for sitting, no matter who sits in them. something about their specificity of program is really interesting.
ReplyDelete"can the use of an object ever be forecast or secured...can it be defended...? Can an object, such as a chair, take on new meaning when cast into a new context, especially in a context so foreign from its intention?.."
ReplyDeletechallenging the notation of the chair: what happens when it has three legs? does this change program or just its cultural implications?
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