Showing posts with label 2020. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 2020. Show all posts

Sunday, December 13, 2020

Asemics in Popular Culture: SNL on the Aesthetics of Meaning ... / EZE, 2020

 Art can be a protest against convention, but art also defines its own conventions just as it is defined by convention. Does art escape convention? Asemics, as art, certainly has its own conventions. But what happens when asemics operates as a means to unground a convention? Does the ensuing criticism move into the circuit of State and Nomad as defined by Deleuze and Guattari? 

Nomadology

Deleuze

The "XXL Rap Roundtable" skit from Saturday Night Live (December 12, 2020) makes a point of posing an asemic performance in a genre against the genre itself. How does asemics operate socially, politically, culturally, and artistically? Asemics here can be taken to be non-sense, i.e. words, utterances, songs, ... without [apparent or shared] meaning. [Note that semantics can be, but need not be, invoked here.] 

And is the point at which performance within a genre establishes itself as contrary to convention, i.e. as not [presently] defined by that genre, a type of asemics as it disrupts the mode of meaning offered by the genre? Or do we need another term other than asemic performance for this use of non-sense?

SNL's XXL Rap Roundtable: Pop Culture Asemics

To what end is asemics as non-sense, as an empty placeholder of the formal, as disruption a method?


Thursday, November 12, 2020

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Sunday, November 8, 2020

myopia, the alphabet soup of the well-defined suddenly un (with Cece Chapman) / EZE, 2020

 


from Cece Chapman: "out those maps too...especially interesting because of the myopic artists that are never mentioned...but i read a long time ago that monks became monks because of their myopia. that priestesses also in ancient egypt and greece, the most nearsighted the more inbred, the more valuable because they could barely see. their prophecies were valued more as they were less influenced by who was before them asking questions because they couldn't see them. and blind priests and priestesses more valuable...also i had heard the same that the very young being trained by renaissance artists drew detail (like maps and bibles ordered by the rich) to train but as they grew older lost the ability to stay focused and draw detail but was probably their eyes changing. maybe you know what a rapidograph pen is with various points some very tiny used in graphic design. but when i was in school at 16-18 the artist kids used to draw psychedelic designs, and very small details, but later admitted at mid twenties they just couldn't do it anymore."