Borges and other extras

Against interpretation essay – the essay that I’ve been questioning for a year.
“Any great and lasting book must be ambiguous. It’s a mirror that makes the reader’s features known” Borges

He says the author must seem to be unaware of the significance of his work. Is that why I can’t explain, not even to tutors the semiology of my work? Are semiotics and an analytical interpretation dangerous to the work? What if the author leaves the process unclear or unfinished for other’s to finish?
“God must not engage in theology; the writer must not destroy by human reasonings the faith that art requires of us.” Borges
Dangerous. Not Philosophical. Not rigorous. Intuitive. Not logical.

Check Word: begat

Check Author: Alan Poe, Wells, Henry James, Oscar Wilde, Mallarmé, Valéry, John William Dunne, John Paul _Getty
Revisit: Kafka, Plato, Rilke, Nietzsche, Baudelaire, Luís Peixoto?
Check written work: Timeaus Derrida, Chora (Plato?)

The death of Art
Conceptual art
Art Povera
Po-po-po-po-POMO…


Individuality
Originality
Artist’s hand

Adapting my nature to social needs
Museums
Exhibitions

Professional Practice
MA
Commissions
Exhibitions

My background
The extra-dimensions of the work: technology romanticized: Frankenstein
“The aim of all life is death” – Freud
Being reborn… what kind of hope does it build in us to imagine that characters or objects are reborn? Romantic feeling of life and the creation of work.


The process
How do I choose my objects – surface and scale?
Transport Limitations


Temptations
Painting
Colour


Media
Painting
Photography
Installation/Sculpture
Titles

Presentations
Research
Po-Post conceptualism
Furniture (“sc”)
Architecture and interaction
Conceptual Furniture

Intension
Coincidence
Displacement
Literature
Philosophy

Mediating the media
Gallery or unconventional venue?
Limitations of collaboration
Dimensions and forces to explore

Disturbing quotes
“Art is not made to be understood” – Cabrita Reis
“work of art + the hole world = the hole world” – Pos-conceptual artist

List of words:
Science and Art
Research question
Problems
Intimacy
Sexuality
Cooperative work VS Collaborative
Entrepreneur
Geezer
Check the difference between semiology and semiotics
Formal art work…