Exhibitionistas: Notes on Art

Is it possible to have a moving art experience of a copy or a mechanically reproduced artwork? Such is the anxiety regarding art, reinforced, often, by a wildly misunderstood concept coined by Walter Benjamin: the aura, the "here and now of the work of art". #walterbenjamin #aura #technologyandart

What if mass reproduction of images brought an art liberation? What is preserving the here and now of the aesthetic experience was a form of gatekeeping?
And how can we read the concept of aura today?

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And here is the link to Kathy's awesome film Navel Gazing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogy1nTiCms0&t=205s

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00:00 Can we be moved by a reproduction of an artwork?
07:04 Walter Benjamin's "Aura" is often misunderstood
15:52 My 2nd hand art experience: 2 paintings by Caspar D. Friedrich
20:12 Benjamin, a fellow podcaster? And the real change brought by tech
29:07 Art Etiquette segment!
40:13 Walter Benjamin's Influence on Art and Technology
40:13 Copy v automated reproduction
53:26 Brainstorm in a teacup segment!
54:37 Answer to the question: can we be moved by a copy of art?

Is digital media preventing us from accessing the most exciting part of culture? Final episode of the hiatus special series: it's a new era! It's a new episode structure with new segments!

Find out more about:
the unacknowledged difference between wonder and wander – wonderment: what is it?
A poem by Wordsworth & Agnes Martin's writings
art etiquette
that time when I went viral and Snoop Dog (or his team) reposted my performance show
and more... (author and podcaster Katy Hessel (Great Women Artists Podcast), author Lauren Elkin...)

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My definition of wonderment is actually taken from the noun ‘wonder’: https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/wonder 

Hollis Frampton’s text: Digression on the Photographic Agony, Artforum, November 1972: https://www.artforum.com/features/digressions-on-the-photographic-agony-209932/

Agnes Martin’s photo credits: Agnes Martin in the mesas near Cuba, New Mexico, 1974. Photo Gianfranco Gorgoni.

Pliny the Elder’s mention of the origin myth of art is in Natural History Book XXXV

My strange viral experience article Going Viral: if your exhibition is reposted by Snoop Dog, does it matter? https://substack.com/home/post/p-157358364

The article where I mention Katy Hessel’s strange Art Self Help Book, Art as Function, Automatic Education, and Self-Care: the Politics of Culture Replaced by the Commodification of Creativity: https://substack.com/@joanaprneves/p-190450394

Find Walter Benjamin’s first “read Walter Benjamin with me” here” https://joanaprneves.substack.com/s/your-crazy-aunt-book-shelf

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00:00 Introduction to Exhibitionistas and New Format
01:30 Wonderment
06:03 Reading Out Loud
08:25 Agnes Martin on Joy
12:58 Ekphrasis
19:51 Digital Hygiene
41:32 Build Exhibitionistas With Me!
46:33 Brainstorm in a Teacup
47:37 Outro

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🔎 Does obscurity lead to creative freedom? Why do I ask? Because of a single sentence in Chris Kraus' book I Love Dick, simply stating that once we accept obscurity, we can do what we want...

📙 This book is a ride through the literary world of the 1990s from the perspective of "the wife of"; it's an exploration of visual art through the perspective of obscurity, complexity and weirdness, and a classic and transgressive exploration of authorship.

We discuss:
I Love Dick (duuuuh)
artistic freedom
creative liberation
female creativity
the complexities of feminism
the work of Sophie Calle, Hannah Wilke
Authorship and its twist through auto-fiction
artistic exposure invisibility, and obscurity
authorship
critique versus experience
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Takeaways
the great literary work of Chris Kraus
the female condition and the role of the artist
layers of feminism
critical prejudice against feminist art
the economy of artistic exclusion
aesthetic experience of desire
desire as a fiction device
sex, lust and adultery in postmodernism
sex in art

00:00 Intro: On creative freedom and obscurity
02:51 A feminist sensation: "I Love Dick" by Chris Kraus 
09:47 Dick, Sylvère... and Chris
15:12 The Structure of the Book
23:29 The Triangle of Obscurity
26:05 Exposure of Self or Obscurity of the Muse?
30:53 Transgression as Sexlessness
41:04 Economic Obscurity
47:21 Sex, Desire, and Visibility
54:26 Art, Identity, and Obscurity
55:44 The Life and Legacy of Hannah Wilke
01:09:39 Art Monsters
01:17:56 Outro

🔎 How do we spot a masterpiece? Can we really know if the art we’re looking at is any good? Which is to say, how do we recognize talent? And is pleasure a real indicator of artistic greatness?

⚒️ Are there any identifying tools that may fit the unique shape of a new work of art?

Spotting great art may be trickier but more exciting than we think. We look into Proust, specifically into one of the most intriguing narrative lines of In Search of Lost Time (Vol I): the presumed greatness of the famous actress, "La Berma”, inspired by the very real and very famous turn of the century Sarah Bernhardt, whose performance tests the main character’s artistic judgment. We’ll follow his tribulations with aesthetic anxiety, antcipation, experience, enjoyment and appreciation.

Are these the steps to artistic paradise?

Tune in to find out, and enjoy some beautiful excerpts of this magnificent, detailed, and wordy (in the best sense!) piece of literature. But... is it any good?

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Takeaways
what is artistic talent
how to identify it
how Proust sees art and its judgement
the subjective power revealed in art
stream of consciousness
what experience really means
aesthetic experience and experience of lif

Is there a dark side to creativity? Might it even be necessary? Are artists visionaries? Or is the future contained in the present, and if so, what will you do about it?

As a an art writer and curator, Joana P. R. Neves, the host, steps back from her job, and steps into the questions it stimulates, about art and life, creativity and philosophy. And what better tools to explore the point were art intersects with life than books?
In this episode, Joana presents and reads excerpts of this week's chosen book, The Invention of Morel (1940) by Adolfo Bioy Casares, and asks "is there a dark side to creativity?"

Read Joana's essays: Art Thinkosaurus.

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Takeaways
genre literature and avant-garde
The artifice of creativity of Adolfo Bioy Casares's 'The Invention of Morel'
The ethical implications of technology and creativity
Chapters
00:00 The Island of Isolation
06:36 The Mysterious Miracle
37:28 Introduction to Adolfo Bioy Casares and 'The Invention of Morel'
47:50 The Island and Its Inhabitants
56:00 Morel's Invention and Its Implications
01:04:29 The Narrator's Response and Ethical Considerations
01:19:02 The Dark Side of Creativity and Technology
01:30:14 The Interconnection of Human Condition and Technology