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| Segunda Jornada Internacional de Arte de Accion de Pumarejo Sevilla, Spain
I try to be a good intellectual artist, I really do. I read my theory and criticism. But despite, or perhaps because of, my best efforts, I find myself lost in a sea of jargon.
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JIAAP, Sevailla
It sometimes seems to me that instead of articulating key points about performance, the artistic vocabulary obfuscates.
So I visited the bookstore at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Barcelona, and started a list of words from the books in the section on criticism and theory:
singularities
rationalist
postmodern
contested
privileged
structuralism
representation....
JIAAP, Sevilla - M. Reyes
I wrote these words in large font across a scroll of paper several meters in length.
performativity
textuality
subjectivity
positivism
historicism
constitutive
discursivity
aestheticization
indoeuropean....
Within the performance space I read these words as though they were forming complete sentences that make sense.
philology
marginalized
semantic
deconstructionism
exegesis
manifest
ontologically
psychoanalytic......
I continue to read them until they are nothing but hypnotic syllables.
Then, borrowing a page from Yves Klein, art fights back.
M. Reyes
Open Hand Open Space Gallery, Roves and Roams productions, Reading, UK
Lucy Ann Hobbs
I cover myself in blue paint of a hue approaching Klein International Blue, and I start to make body prints over the words.
JIAAP, Sevilla - M. Reyes
It becomes quite physical. I bring the art back to the language with my body and the paint together.
JIAAP, Sevilla, - Domix Garrido-
Roves and Roams, Reading, UK - Lucy Ann Hobbs
I complete the reclaiming of the language with cleansing fire.
Sevilla - M Reyes
Sevilla M. Reyes
Reading, UK - Lucy Ann Hobbs
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