#romanticconceptualism

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Future is Out There Photographic Installation 300x220 cm / AkT project, Art-zavod Platforma 2017, Kyiv, Ukraine 

[comdthesis]

That’s the irony of Romantic Conceptualism: the artists take on all the embarrassment, leaving it open whether we shall embarrass ourselves as well. It counters the imposition of having to merely fulfil one’s role as a dependable member of the community.

Jörg Heiser – talking about Romantic Conceptualism and fragmentation method of his book

[comdthesis]

I realised that conceptualist artmaking a) doesn’t have to neglect emotion to make a ‘depersonalized’, i.e. anti-narcissist statement and b) that that is the case because emotions themselves have a ‘conceptual’ side to them: they are cultural techniques of coming to terms with ones environment, whether productively or destructively.

Jörg Heiser – talking about Romantic Conceptualism and fragmentation method of his book

[comdthesis]

I’m in favour of allowing the inevitably fragmented viewpoint of a singular person such as me to serve as a kind of yardstick measured against other yardsticks (rather than claiming to have access to some kind of transcendental yardstick of beauty norms etc.). [...] [But] we have to keep making the effort to argue in the midst of experiment, arbitrary feelings and perceptions, and doubt.

Jörg Heiser -- talking about Romantic Conceptualism and fragmentation method of his book