the thread where HOOS pitches/solicits ideas for "art responses" in his contemporary art class

Now I'm to class, so forgive me for not responding to any responses right away.

art is bunkum. modern art is rubbish.

http://www.guypetersreviews.com/images/blurmodern.jpg

Instructor will essentially accept anything, so I'ma have fun with it. Me & the gf are putting me in a dress & making vag-shaped cookies for a 1950s Good Housekeeping-style fake ad.

pictures please

oh there will be pictures

10+ hour slo-mo video of you kicking someone out of your hotel

thanking u

and 10 hour biopic of the ensuing clusterf*ck thread, starring gary sinise and divine.

sorry, HOOS, that first post was narky. i got nothing to contribute, and will now skulk off feeling ashamed.

obv. for "appropriation art" you should steal a classmates assignment and present it as your own.

xps yeah that was kind of weak.

too bad you don't like minimalism tho! do you think the art is actually bad, or were the minimalists jerks in some concrete way?

and i am a fan of long ass slo mo videos

call it big DIE aka the artproject

go to class naked, refuse to answer questions about why

I recreated a bunch of Rothkos in html once for an Art History class assignment.

in-class jenkem consumption

video of someone nerf-missiling you in the shoulder

After watching a program about Donald Judd on the Ovation channel just the other day, I'm almost excited to agree with anyone that the minimalists were jerks.

And from Wikipedia: Donald Clarence Judd (June 3, 1928 - February 12, 1994) was a minimalist artist (a term he stridently disavowed)

good grief...

I seem to be the only person that finds the visual joke in my MSPaint sketch funny.

:(

oh wait lj apparently thought it was hilars

awesome

go to class naked, refuse to answer questions about why

-- milo z, Wednesday, January 23, 2008 5:14 PM

so gonna happen

ok so i did "die exploded" viz above. it's the six squares between two sheets of clear contact paper.

here is my pretensious-as-fuck "artist's statement" that the assignment dictates has to come with the piece:

This piece, which I have titled Die, Exploded (Open Letter to Tony Smith et al), has an immediate reference point in Tony Smith's seminal Die, but Die, Exploded is intended as a response to and critique of the Minimalist aesthetic more generally. Reading Anna C. Chave's essay “Minimalism and the Rhetoric of Power” left me rather dead-set against the Minimalists. The smug disingenuousness and coy phallocentrism evident in work like Dan Flavin's The Diagonal of May 25, 1963, for example, left a bad taste in my mouth. I felt a need to issue a rejoinder.

This piece imagines that Smith's steel box has been exploded from within, and that the six sides which form the cube have spread out in the formation suspended. The “multiple valences” (to borrow from Chave) of this particular formation are left to the viewer to determine, but I would hope that one particular meaning is clear and shouldn't require being spelled out. Like the Zen koans of old, think of this statement as merely “the finger pointing at the moon.”

In contrast to Smith, I used lightweight and disposable materials to construct my piece. Unlike most Minimalist work, which seems to suggest a kind of totalitarian, industrial permanence, Die, Exploded makes no claims on permanence and in fact underlines its own disposability. Its size is also a factor in this. Unlike Smith's secretive, closed black box Die Exploded is completely transparent in its construction. Ideally it might be suspended from a ceiling so that it could be viewed from any and all sides.

Thank god for explanations.

coy phallocentrism (...) left a bad taste in my mouth

oops

http://img174.imageshack.us/img174/4507/imageuploadimagecs1.jpg

i felt a need to issue

I (...) Exploded (...) in (...) Smith's (...) box

I....hope.....I....might be suspended from a ceiling

Judd is a fucking jerk. Hoos plz drive to Marfa & offer a pointed critique to passersby. (I would say "blow his stuff up" but that seems a bit harsh.)

is "exploded" supposed to be a peener?

actually the orig intent was for it to be "the finger," and the waaaaaaaay obv "coy phallocentrism" (hur hur) didn't even occur to me until ljag pointed it out!

Still waiting on the Good Housekeeping vag cookie pics. (folds hands on lap demurely)

hey so for 'appropriation art' i did Random Garfield Generator plus pretensious titles

http://photos-d.ak.facebook.com/photos-ak-sf2p/v148/76/80/698821733/n698821733_275379_1502.jpg

Where's the cookie sheet?

alright so i put this third project off til the last minute cause fuck it i'm a senior

then i realized i had no ideas

so i made a "sound collage" (aka a long ambient track played backwards + some pitch-shifted & cutup samples over the top) and wrote a page about how its an abstract audio history of race relations since 1957.

titled it "Emancipation (sublimateD)"

Next piece should be a urinal with your urine in it, entitled 'dis is what i think of yo shit duchamp (more leik duchump) u chess playin fag'.

titled it "Emancipation (sublimateD)"

YSI?

lol will do but i warn you it is shit

oh btw i totally idea-jacked from The Field by sampling & fucking w/the "doobopdoobop" bit of "I Only Have Eyes for You"

Samples:

-”Hunting for Vegetarian Fuckface” by Stars of the Lid
-”Black Satin” by Miles Davis
-”I Only Have Eyes for You” by The Flamingos
-”How You Think I Got It” by Clipse & Reup Gang
-”Truth Is Marching” by Albert Ayler
-”Orbs” by Sam Rivers

And then a ridic paragraph about how each section represents the evolution of race relations in a particular decade.

Detamilbus?

Is the piece sort of like Bangbus?

lol on aim max and i bandied about possibilities of working in detamilbus somehow

titled it "Emancipation (sublimateD)"

DJ Spooky?

(Detamilbus) noit a pic namE

oh there will be pictures

-- BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, January 23, 2008 8:43 AM

you big (HOOS) tease

DJ HOOSy aka that STEINDRIVIN' KIDS

I always wonder how teachers grade this kind of stuff, or your 'project.' Fortunately, this is America, where if you wrap junk like jewelry, people act likeit's jewelry.

I am starting to suspect that Mr HOOS found his initial project for making vaginaform cookies was biting off more than he could chew.

bro i will do them over the summer just 4 u shit sounds like fun anyways and the gf loves the idea

Cookie dough is a challenging medium.

HOOS i'm glad you're not an ivy leaguer
http://www.yaledailynews.com/articles/view/24513

^^lol i was just considering posting that

^^lol i was considering contributing to that

Got my most recent project back w/grade & comments:

"100! Stunning, really a very impressive project to end the semester with. Stay in touch, I'd like to follow your work!"

I don't know if I feel glad I got one over on the guy or a little bit disappointed that he didn't see right through me. I'd almost been hoping he'd give the lie to the whole "they'll give ANYTHING a good grade in these classes" stereotype and see through my BS and give me an F!

conversation with my brother on facebook chat:

miles
learnig to weld
getting in to sculpter in big ways
10:21amMax
i think its spelled sculpture
10:21ammiles
shut uyp
im an artist
10:21amMax
tru
10:21ammiles
we dont need to spell
and even if i did misspell it
its part of my statement on the medium
im re contextualizing...
something
my dick