Art Lecture by Frazer Ward [January 27, 2011 at the Glassell School of Art
Some Notes:
- Douglas Crimp– said that it is the end of painting
- “Photography represents the afterlife” (since it captures a moment in time)
- There is a certain veracity and mortality in photographs that cannot be mistaken
- “Save the last dance, don’t forget who is taking you home.” > Michael Buble Save the Last Dance For Me
- Daniel Buren
- “The vampire is cursed to go through the history of representation”
- One of the first representations: The Lost Boys
- Vampires as an embodiment of capital
- Vampires refusal to die much as they are not supposed to
- “Dislocation in history”
- Friends don’t let friends drink friends
- The wanting of: submission? Rescue? Remaking?
- Nihilistic patterns
- There is a huge imprecision of decade markers in art
- “Subject as fragmented and fluid, not self”
- History vs. memory
- A melancholic representation (of vampires through time)
- Many parallels between the 80’s and the vampiric position
In the theme of vampires:
