Posted by Count Torby on March 20, 1997 at 13:03:55:
In Reply to: Re: art, reality and fiction posted by Lars Vilks state secr on March 19, 1997 at 23:21:17:
: : Hm ?? State secr. Lars Vilks said something about Ladonia,
: : not beeing an art project ? How could this become a possible
: : statesment.Itīs like someone claimed that the cave-paintings
: : isnīt art. Itīs like saying that Stonehenge isnīt an art project.
: : I would say that Ladonia is more of an art project than most of
: : the contemporary art can claim to be. (the traditional menings of the word
: : art will very soon have no more mening at all. - Sorry to say folks!)
: : The type of projects like the Finnish "fabric" called " BONK" is a art project
: : some years ago,with great simularity to The Ladonian art consept.
: : Lars Vilks argue that there is to much reality leaking in. Whats that ?
: : Isnīt reality - realism - documentary - the real life possible in the consept
: : of art any more ? Where is the difference between reality and fiction ?
: : I want to suggest : Let Ladinia become the first real/fiction nation in an
: : contemporary art museum / Paris? New Dehli? Reykjarvik? dosnīt matter. We are the only
: : nation - 100% on line 100% contemporary at all times.
: Dear Geir,
: First of all I don't think cavepaintings are at work,
: nor Stonehenge - but still extremely interesting
: objects. The problems with art at the moment are
: the internal communication that comes from this
: institution. A few things in art are interesting, but
: there is everything else that doesn't get into
: art. Ladonia is what its citizens are doing and
: I think that there is no reason to shout for the
: institution of art. It is a project like other
: countries, though the Ladonians like to do it in
: their way.
:
: Lars Vilks
Best Geir Stene and worthy state secretary Lars Vilks!
Lovely!
Now we have a wery interesting discussion of the concept of art.
What is art anyway? Can we say that the bloke who in the joker Ashbergs
program farted God save the Queen was an artperformer? Fartism?
Or if I put a stone in my garden and paint a spot on it, is
that to be considered as art? Whoever knows...
And I definitevely am of the opinion that the cave paintings is art,
and of the highest quality too.
Ars longa, vita brevis
Count Torby