"It's just really frustrating, you know, not being able to discuss art with anyone. No one I know really understands the upcoming artistic movements and what's happening in the world. I have this idea running through my head for my thesis and I have no one to bounce it off of."
"Give me a shot. I know jack shit about art but I might be able to offer some outside perspective."
"Okay, so lately there's been this steering of artists to make their pieces transitory and temporary. Like they will have something set up in a gallery and unless you can go in and see it during its tenure, they then take it away."
"I think I read something the other day about that, this Brazilian artist has been using trash from the landfills in Brazil in his pieces."
"Yeah, yeah exactly. I just find it interesting that art today is transitioning from being a method of preservation to a transitory expression".
"Well let's think a lot about why art was created in the first place- not only that people wanted to preserve historical events or have portraits of themselves to last throughout history but also that most of the very beginning artwork was religious. For centuries, people would depict Bible scenes and weave tapestries not only to depict the majesty of a monotheistic omniscient, omnipotent God but the art itself was meant to last, just as Christian God is supposed to-forever.
"Nowadays although the evangelist fundamentalist movement has taken over certain geographical areas, there has been sort of a falling out with religion and Christianity in particular that has happened. People are now 'spiritual but not religious'. Our gods, the being that we worship now are celebrities which in and of themselves are disposable. Fifteen minutes of fame and all that. Maybe our growing realizations that our souls aren't eternal, that we worship human beings who are capable of flaws and falling off the face of the earth, has affected artist's work."
"Yeah...something like that."
-Laura Delahaye and Halie Taylor. Sunday, October 24th at 6:44 PM.
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