For example, he quotes from the musician's notes from Die Roboter Rubato* (1997) by Terre Thaemlitz: "Kraftwerk’s most vibrant celebration of this Homoeroticization is in the composition Tour de France. The sonic manifestation of the group’s well known adoration for cycling bears an undeniable resemblance to the sound of two men fucking one another – the rhythmic breaths of the top intermingling with the panting moans of the bottom.
"Immediate questions come to mind: for all of the obviousness of homoerotic thematics in the world of the Mensch Machines, how do such thematics remain undiscussed by popular media? Is the dominant silence around homoerotic themes an act of social suppression or social obliviousness?"
Wow! What an interpretation of Kraftwerk. I'm seriously loling. I love it when critics stretch that hard. It becomes an artwork in its own right at that point. This is all very Huysman. The immersion of oneself into an idealized work of art that can never exist, but (sorta) does because you have forced it into existence. Making the work of art work such an idol that it can be everything one needs at once. It's tragic and beautiful psychological dependency.
"For the listener, who listens in the snow,
And, nothing himself, beholds
Nothing that is not there, and the nothing that is."
Love this ambient redo of Gary Numan.
The caliber of writing on {feuilleton}, and its catholicity of subject matter, are notable. Within the past two days, Coulthart also posted his thoughts on the sculpture dressers Elmgreen and Dragset. Well, anyway, that's what the artists are humorously doing right now. Love the blue-striped tube socks on Hermes! Delicious. Hermes has always been one of my favorite gods--probably because he's usually more unambiguously gay than most of the other Greek gods. He's clearly an otter. He surely advertised his "swimmer's build" in his M4M ads on Olympus. I've always loved the Mercury dime too. Great design. One of my all-time favorite American coins. Oh, and for any Ab Fab fans, Joanna Lumley also features in this post!
In case you don't go to the linked article, I have to include this on one of Elmgreen and Dragset's previous provocations: "As a duo, the artists - who will exhibit at London's Victoria and Albert Museum in autumn 2013 - are known for works including Prada Marfa, a full-scale replica of a Prada boutique in the middle of the Texan desert."
That was surely inspired by a love of the lonely land in James Dean's pre-death stop, the Giant set, where there was no there there before the movie set up its fake facade of a Hopper-esque house, and I'm presuming no there there again since they packed up and left.
Talk about Baghdad Cafe!
I think that's an awesome gesture.
My only critique is if they were going for just irony, I could think of better places they could have set up a Prada Store--like Golgotha, Auschwitz, or Ground Zero.
But E&D might have encountered a little more resistance to putting up a Prada in those places than in Marfa.
I like thinking of bags with Prada Golgotha on them.
Instead of Prada Milano.
A knockoff Prada (paper!) bag goes for eight bucks online. I know because I just checked and laughed. It's a funny world.
Also, I found this site through [feuilleton}. Be sure to use the "Random" button to have a different sixpack of design pop up on your screen each time. S'nice.
Oh, I should have linked here so you know more about Coulthart.
Here's "recent work." This looks too good to be true? This can't be an actual product, can it? I'm assuming it's a funny conceptualist gesture? Pretending a product from the 1880s, say, the Golden Age of Panaceas and Hyperbolic Advertising, was suddenly transported by time machine to 2012?
*These are notes from an album "(on) which the musician/artist/theorist plays rubato piano variations on the well-known (Kraftwerk) songs."
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