Status Updates From Art Today /anglais

Is this just how art people see chaos?

"McCarthy shies away from questions about meaning and reference. In keeping with the ... performance of ... Klein,we find it is mess in and for itself that commands center stage, the release of instinctual disorder from the constraining channels of sobriety and decorum."

So showing seemingly unrelated pieces in a show is to demonstrate a preference for "an exuberant orgy of mental gymnastics that would encourage a fluid exchange of meaning...the pleasurable rubbig of one idea against another to see what sparks fly."

Not buying this...

Katherina Fritsch,: I like to free objects from their usual significance

So the situationists were "excavated and revalidated" in the late 1980s but that line missed the who and why ...It appears the historical context is often lacking in this book except the first few paragraphs beginning a chapter.