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(written on 03.10.25 12:31)
Every day must be a debate, and despising people who’s days aren’t is natural. The only problem is that we can’t trust nature anymore.
driesvanelke >> driesvanelke.com
(written on 02.10.25 23:01)
Daily I try to create mythology around myself.
I reconstetute symbols to find out how they work and how much there is of us.
Where and how does visual trancends into imperceptible.
driesvanelke >> driesvanelke.com
(written on 02.10.25 23:05)
I oppose the notion of framing the research within the practice. I research
all the time, my brain always works.
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(wwritten on 02.10.25 23:19)
Now more and more people are talking art everywhere. The inner sanctum of art became decodable, it lost its Holy Spirit. Everybody can debate elements, the untouchable liminal space between us and the artwork is at the brink of collapse. For the exact same reason we see the culminative expansion of the professional forgers that excel tremendously in the animation of this Holy Spirit—the curators of their own artistic practice. You can find them in every ubercommercial gallery today. Artworks that imitate the essence of an artwork. Even the word "artist" became civil. It implies your success in commercializing these strange commodities that we produce.
Quite often the word "art" reveals to us as an epiphenomenon, an umbrella term for completely different goals, motivations, and cravings. But in such a moment one shouldn't succumb to pointless radicality. This word nevertheless allows us to do what we like to do. It's a shield that we can hide behind in order to at least try to sustain our weird perversions within the schemology of established symbols and economics.