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Comment on Aoibheann Greenan: Tahiti Syndrome by Deirdre Johnston

Deirdre Johnston — Sun, 13 May 2012 08:41:58 +0000

What a talented artist.

Comment on Urban Interventions by Orchestralosmosis | ART IN THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD

Orchestralosmosis | ART IN THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD — Wed, 09 May 2012 08:34:23 +0000

[...] Submitted by Hugh on May 9, 2012 – 9:34 amNo Comment A project devised as part of the NCAD/UCD Urban Interventions module, Orchestralosmosis will take place on Chatham Row (off Grafton Street) tomorrow (Thursday [...]

Comment on Wine Soak no.4: Challenging Times by jan

jan — Fri, 04 May 2012 21:36:42 +0000

More marquis de sade than marques de leon eh? good to hear about a new exhibition space, shame about the vine

Comment on Urban Interventions by mary marmion

mary marmion — Thu, 03 May 2012 10:07:07 +0000

becoming visible by becoming invisible. Clever. The choice of covering up women is also pointed in the context of gender identity construction. Molly and Markie were proud and fiesty women in their time. Their sort were hidden and hushed in Modern Ireland. Whats the story today……………? Invitation to respond. Are women visible? Are they hushed? Are they fiesty?

Comment on Urban Interventions by Hugh

Hugh — Thu, 03 May 2012 09:24:48 +0000

Susan’s piece getting some attention on broadsheet.ie …

http://www.broadsheet.ie/2012/05/03/todays-imponderable-25/

Comment on Wine Soak no.4: Challenging Times by J. Ligvine Kreek

J. Ligvine Kreek — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 13:13:55 +0000

Grumble, grumble…(hic!)

Comment on Wine Soak no.4: Challenging Times by admin

admin — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 11:48:10 +0000

Watch it Kreek. Remember you’re on a montly retainer.

Comment on Wine Soak no.4: Challenging Times by Jacob Ligvine Kreek

Jacob Ligvine Kreek — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 11:23:01 +0000

I would like to thank my editor for the inclusion of the typos that were not in my original text(hic!).

Yours Sincerely
J. Ligvine-Kreek

Comment on Orgy Of Stupidity by rob

rob — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 11:28:16 +0000

If philosophers are seen as glum naked apes building slops of shit in the face of their own impossibility, then christ, what are visual artists who try to work through and elaborate on contemporary theory in a tangible visual?! [for more information see my website].
It could be likened to Tommy Tiernan’s groan that metaphysics could be reduced to the experience of “Running down a hill as a kid that was a bit too steep for you, but not being able to stop laughing”.

It’s apt that you brought up Critchley’s thoughts here as he, as recently as this week, made the quip that humanity isn’t in the grand position that enlightenment thinking would place on us. He commented on his own role as a philosopher as “definitely something that a lobster couldn’t do”- however that’s all the importance he gave it in the wider context of existence. I think that’s why I find Harman so tempting as I enjoy his concept [after I push it a little further, abstract his intention, and throw sand in its face] that an object could do it, and then possibly find it is also completely inadequate in its attempt.

I accept your deduction that Harman would think I was just hassling his work, I’d also like to agree with your view of him as an optimist. I suppose absurdity to me is very optimistic and paradoxically meaningful [I would be firmly behind Ray Brassier’s defence of nihilism in the same breath] in the sense that an ‘optimistic absurdity’ is not possible without skepticism, and when skepticism and optimism meet, it could be said that they induce the tragic, or tragic’s logical conclusion as I see it- the absurd.

Again, Critchley talked of the practice of absurdity or the tragic [he was talking about Shakespearean Theatre but it was very similar to Absurdist Theatre in many ways] being the product of the mingle that takes place between the sublime and the horrific. Specifically that the comic aspect of absurdity or tragedy could be seen as a discharge of disgust- here, possibly the disgust at Kantian philosophy’s failed attempts at a decent or ‘wondrous’ metaphysics. He also described tragedy as the “failure of a rational attempt to explain something”, which could be read as a complex predisposition of both Kantian and more mystical philosophies I suspect, in my own reading, Harman’s philosophy kind of totes the line between these two positions which is fascinating for me when objects are under discussion. [wether they be thoughts or chairs]

I suppose the action of looking at Harman in the way I did in the article is my own mini quest to find this point or formula for where and how this shift from the sublime to the comedically horrific takes place so I can go back to the studio and try to discuss this mutant visually, and hopefully fail.

Comment on Simon Critchley on Faith of the Faithless at Dublin Unitarian Church by Mystical Anarchism | ART IN THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD

Mystical Anarchism | ART IN THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 20:50:18 +0000

[...] you can’t make Simon Critchley’s talk in the Unitarian Church on Thursday 29th of March, then you have another chance to catch him at this evening organised by Clodagh Emoe in Block T on [...]