Jun 14, 2015
Excerpt. Jack Smith 1963 43 min. The New York Underground; structural film
Jack Burnham defined structuralism as “predicated on the fact that all mythic modes of communication mirror the values and goals of the society using them.” Robert C. Morgan defined the structuralist method as “a means for deciphering not only information about the piece but some form of closure and/or resolution. Again, this sense of closure is a condition quite foreign to many of the works produced in the eighties by the Neo-Conceptualists. Instead of closure there is suspension. Instead of meaning there is a cynical edge, an overload of meaning that points toward the absurd rather than toward some sense of completeness…”