[syndicate] Re: Tehran

[Michael Watson]

--- Eduardo Navas <eduardo at navasse.net> wrote:
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Michael Watson" <michaelw at eleanorrigby.net
> > "When I consider the things that were sold to us - hungry
> junkies
> > of the art world ready to be fixed for the day - in the name of
> > Conceptual Art I can't help but let out a cry of withdrawal."
> >                                    -- Behrang Samadzadegan
> >
> > http://www.tehranavenue.com/ws_galleria_conceptual.htm
> >
> > Your modem is fucked up!
> > http://www.tehranavenue.com/ec_feature_dialup.htm
> 
> Not sure why there is angst against conceptual art (not really an
> issue with
> me) but I think the following text is a good contrast to the
> above premise:
> 
> "When a man howls or shouts or threatens, we other animals
> understand him
> very well! Then his attention is not in that other world!  But he
> barks in a
> way all his own -- he speaks.  And this has enabled him to invent
> what does
> not exist and to overlook what exists.  As soon as he gives a
> thing a name
> that he ceases to see the thing itself; he only hears the name
> that he gave
> it or sees it written... For him, everything in the world is
> merely a
> pretext for talking to other men or for talking to himself."
> 
> -- Funeral oration, by Orfeo the dog on Augusto the man, in
> Miguel de
> Unamuno's Novel MIST.
> --------------------
> A priori is inescapable, especially when we search for the
> sublime.
> 
> Best,
> 
> Eduardo Navas
> 

VERSE OF THE HAN
(Incised on the han at Koko An) 

Completely freed from yes and no;
great emptiness charged within;
no questions, no answers;
like a fish, like a fool.


Best to you as well,
Michael Watson