rhizomonics
Moving around
rhizome, I had a difficult time getting actually engrossed in the site. It all feels, somehow, disconnected from life, or rather, disconnected from usefulness. It is not that I believe that art has to have a purpose, but this art leaves me rather c-o-l-d. It does not elicit any sort of response or interest. is it because it is on the computer and i am sitting here alone in my office? do I want art to be more connected to life? I am left wondering, what exactly is the purpose of this art? It feels more like fancy exercise than fluid dancing; stairmaster vs. tango.
Until high-speed is less-expensive, I'm going to have dial-up from home, so many of the sites features, like
Shadows Out of Time, are going to take quite a bit of time to view from my home connection, which is where I usually am.
This may well sound like a repetitive and self-imposed gripe, but it feels like a silent playground for the artistic techies. I like art to have gobs of paint, smells, textures, organic mobility outside of the screen. brrr. cold.
Lately, I've been nearly collapsing under the weight of minutiae that fields of study can produce. It's interesting how the obsession with getting published has created this monster of text production and over-convolution of the subject matter They're like mutant cells, rapidly self-generating and perpetuating themselves. Is Rhizome another growth of this nature?
I wholly support networks of like-minded and/or free-thinking people, but I'm starting to lose any sort of grasp on the world beyond academia and intellectualism. Rather than art for art's sake, it seems more like intellectualism for intellectualism's sake. While modernists may have been of a binary mind, post-modernists seemed to be suspended mid-air in a long silent leap, springboarding away from the past, but into what?
So many isms. I'm a realist? and a humanist? and an individualist? and a transcendentalist? and a ... Can you really define this in isms? Can an ism retain any warmth from the breath of life within us?
Maybe I will just go back to my woods, and dodder by the stream, writing romantic poetry that sympathizes with the confused cynics of our time.
Maybe.
I've gone back to peruse Rhizome three or four times.
Maybe next week Rhizome will look totally different to me. or
maybe not.
Posted by wood0072 at October 22, 2005 10:58 AM
I know exactly what you mean. I coudn't figure out the site either.
It just seems like a drop all site for anyone who can't get there art put anywhere else.
is there a problem with art for art's sake? i mean, isn't that what you'd be creating in the woods, by the stream, andrea?
but then you wouldn't be posting it on the web!
i have no prob with people making art that's just for them. creating something...what a rush.
but then what's with the public display?
i don't think i indicated any problem with art for art's sake, in fact i support that. but then we run into a boeuf-steak with that whole ART conundrum and get into a head-banging session over definitions and the MEANING of it all, like Zimmerman's game crowd.
really, it's probably a simple matter of aesthetic preference. the people using the site seem to be happy with it, and that, i guess, is a good thing.
btw, who is this chris fella? he reminds me of our friend prolix.