A_dontigny : Geisteswissenschaften
Sat Jun 14, 2008 10:50 pm
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A_dontigny : Geisteswissenschaften
Composer: A_dontigny
Performers: A_dontigny • Paul Dolden • Diane Labrosse • Jon Vaughn
mage: A_dontigny, Chantal Dumas, David Turgeon
• Prix Opus 2006-07: Disque de l’année — finaliste
“Today, when we can eat Tex-Mex with chopsticks while listening to reggae and watching a YouTube rebroadcast of the Berlin Wall’s fall - i.e., when damn near everything presents itself as familiar — it’s not a surprise that some of today’s most ambitious art is going about trying to make the familiar strange. [...] Whatever charge of tastelessness or trademark violation may be attached to the artistic appropriation of the media environment in which we swim, the alternative — to flinch, or tiptoe away into some ivory tower of irrelevance — is far worse.” (Foster Wallace, as “plagiarized” by Jonathan Lethem in The Ecstasy of Influence, Harper’s Magazine, February 2007)
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