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preliminary call for VERY LARGE WORKS
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VERY LARGE WORKS is an online show (pavilion) at The Wrong art biennale 2019-2020, organised by Noemata group.
the call consists of this intro and some (curatorial) questions. you can take part in the show by submitting more questions or by submitting work related to the questions. in other words, you can participate as curator posing questions, or as artist submitting works to questions.
now, can we also pose a question whether the question itself is a work, and vice versa, whether a submitted work itself is a question? this is left as a question also for now.
then, what is a good platform for this? would a bulletin board or email-list do? we'd love to give life to other web protocols and practises, free from commercial clutter, abide with a vision closer to the original internet.
the project concerns internet curatorship as much as 'very large works'. it could be called Very Collaborative-Discursive Thing perhaps. our goal is seeing if this form of show could develop into a more general practise within the entangled netbased- art and curatorship pair.
IF ARE YOU INTERESTED IN PARTICIPATING (non-bindingly) in the show simply comment yes to this post, or reply 'very large works' to
mail@noemata.net. the purpose is, besides probing interest, to drop a few names into an application to get the project funded (with the help of God).
VERY LARGE WORKS preliminary questions
how large?
what are the extensions of an artwork?
does it have any? did art invent the zero yet? or negative dimensions?
one mole of elephants?
since we can script electrons, that's different from counting?
what about in-between dimensions?
who told you it was visible, countable, accountable?
the monitor is merely a - monitor?
... that admonishes, cautions, of matters of conduct?
is a very large work still a work?
does it want to be a work?
is work endless work, Sisyphus?
is it perhaps too romantic, or is it just lack of imagination?
inherent lack?
isn't imagination too tacky, just imagine?
and cognition, its own?
boundaries - when will it take on its own?
circuits, morphology?
what about a six-dimensional work with unknown extensions?
as a matter of fact?
the home of time?
where would they fit, the very large works?
isn't very large more like muscle, and work again?
penis enlargement?
largus copious?
then you have copy and number, ennumeration, infinity or cost?
as you approach lim, inf?
it certainly isn't infinite, it's most definitely finite?
what about tactility and number?
abstract numbers close at hand?
numbers and money (mcluhan)?
"sure, sure"?
"The result hammered for a mountain-scene panorama measuring over 8 meters wide and 3 meters high - The Grand Fucking Mountains (2019) - illustrates the immense success of this new giant of et cetera"?
if you're a great artist.. a great artist makes great artworks?
now with internet we can also make VERY LARGE works?
couple it with art marked finance, whitewashing, scams, and what have you?
physicality seems to.. and the virtual-real?
are very large works also very tiny works?
what about zooming?
inside - outside, can you always zoom into and outof?
can a zoom substitute different domains of knowledge into one zoomable territory?
also recursion is the devil, chain reaction, link reaction?
anything that, which is most things, as counting +1?
large and scarce
grasp our current love of numbers and quantitative information?
extension of our senses, sounds ominous, numinous?
the extension is of the same, just look at a postcard?
the news is the most trite thing there is?
how many days have you lived?
then how many did you skip?
nights?
can you even trust your senses, less the extensions?
and trust your trust, judgement?
the agreeable, the beautiful, the sublime, and the good?
unknown universals for given particulars?
subjective universal oxymoronic?
tasteless?
the strong taste of nothing?
your lightyear or mine?
now thoughts can be tactile-erectile?
what about lard, very lard?
why did you ever want to think?
two deserts - one empty, one full?
and digestion, not the least?
the schematas from table of judgement, delicious fruit?
duration, just imagine, no, just feel, no, just be, no, just, obdure?
that's on a cliff?
mirror, mirror on the wall?
on both sides?
head over heels?
the somerzsault of reflection, why is the left right?
is it biodegradable?
only if we die?
under the wrapping on a summer breeze?
cc: coco chanel?
copious fragrance disseminate, when will art smell?
bcc: blind coco chanel?
are the senses extensions at all, or rather indentations?
ye olde intentionality?
are there any gifts left?
exit shop to the right?
preliminary participants
Denise Kehoe, Eurico Sá Fernandes, Christian Blom, Antoine Schmitt, Igor and Ivan Buharov, Termodress (Christian Bøen), Kira Simon-Kennedy, AP Vague, Xiaoyao Xu, Ana Buigues, Zsolt Mesterhazy, Natalia Matta-Landero, Dirk Vekemans, Maja kalogera, Gottfried Haider, Douglas Repetto, Nina Sobell, Simon Perathoner, Joseph Moore, www PerfectUsersCollective, Ada Ortega Camara, Alexander Ness, ronnie s, David Quiles Guilló, irena kalodera, daria baiocchi, Lanny Quarles, Jukka-Pekka Kervinen, Andreas Maria Jacobs, Julia E Dyck, Yiorgos Chouliaras, Jim Andrews, Harvey Lev, Dominik Podsiadly, Elle Thorkveld, nigel roberts, Simon Biggs, Vivian Cintra
notes
for VLW i was thinking people can either submit questions and/or works, so that a participant can not only 'submit' work to a set of curating rules/questions, but also add to or change them. in this case a participant can submit a curatorial thing as work, forming a contradiction to the either/or.
so on second thought, and closer to nomic, one could perhaps take part with art _as_curatorial also? so you submit TO a rule or submit A rule. it would be a Very Collaborative-Discursive Thing.. the title VLW now seems to slide into the background, but again, the theme is the main thing holding it together, the one thing that can't be changed. maybe this form of show could develop into a more general stance on net curatorship?
what if we further say that input/moves/actions are treated as both works AS rule and work FROM rule? how would that affect? where are we floating?
next question, what is a good platform for this?
would a bulletin board be a good platform, an email-list?
also to give life to older web protocols, free from commercial clutter, the vision of the internet
notes to fund application
would be decent to be able to give participants something for their work.
resources