Monday, February 18, 2008

Notes from the Cai Guo Qiang Exhibit - I WANT TO BELIEVE

Words/text that inspired us, while walking around this incredible Guggenheim exhibit:

savagery
reconfiguration
social sculpture
unpredictable splendor
elixir of immortality
negotiation
regeneration
change - constant
vitalization
fixity

social energy
creative distruction
conflict transformation
ephemeral
matrix of cultural ??? (energy?)
ephemeral
inherently unstable
connectivity

creative trangressions
cultural provocations

"His expanded notion of culture experience subverts tropes like East versus West, traditional versus contemporary, center versus periphery and so suggests a new cultural paradigm for the art of a global age."

"Cai's desire is to create art that is not just a depiction of a natural phenomenon of energy but is itself the direct trace or effect of that phenomenon."

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