Comments on: What Is Experimental Art?

By: Bowerbird #20: Stain Mimic Admire Perish « avian architext

Bowerbird #20: Stain Mimic Admire Perish « avian architext — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 17:54:59 +0000

[...] talks about real things, brutality, poverty, the soul. Perhaps you are beginning to see my point. Continuity is everywhere, even in situations of discontinuity. The symbolism is not too subtle. This is what is known as the cosmic coincidence. But it’s no [...]

By: Rethinking Experimental Literature / the Avant-Garde / what Henry Miller calls “the inhuman ones” | HTMLGIANT

Fri, 01 Jul 2011 19:35:11 +0000

[...] of human abstraction, an attempt at defamiliarizing the human experience or human understanding. A D Jameson has proposed that “Experimental art is that which takes unfamiliarity as its dominant—even [...]

By: A Guide to My Writing Here at Big Other « BIG OTHER

A Guide to My Writing Here at Big Other « BIG OTHER — Mon, 09 May 2011 14:09:35 +0000

[...] What Is Experimental Art? — part of me believes this is the best thing I’ve written for this site: it’s an examination of the often-conflated terms “avant-garde,” “experimental,” and “innovative,” and an attempt to redefine and reconcile them [...]

By: Why I Hate the Avant-Garde, pt 2 « BIG OTHER

Why I Hate the Avant-Garde, pt 2 « BIG OTHER — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 20:24:48 +0000

[...] love experimental art dearly. I love it so much that I’ve worked hard to define it independently of ideas like “avant-garde” and “innovation” (because I don’t think it’s synonymous with either of those terms): Experimental art is [...]

By: Why I Hate the Avant-Garde « BIG OTHER

Why I Hate the Avant-Garde « BIG OTHER — Sun, 02 Jan 2011 20:10:38 +0000

[...] most recent post on the term “avant-garde”—I’ve already discussed this somewhat here, here and here, but to [...]

By: HTMLGIANT / Mondo Review/Reflection/Notes On Inception

HTMLGIANT / Mondo Review/Reflection/Notes On Inception — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 16:11:45 +0000

[...] last sentence there reminds me of what AD Jameson has discussed re: the tension between convention and innovation: the way a work needs to be legible lest (in [...]

By: Looking for Pago Pago « BIG OTHER

Looking for Pago Pago « BIG OTHER — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 19:04:49 +0000

[...] may be biased, but everything I see these days seems traceable back to Gauguin and the other Asia–obsessed Impression…. That Eastern obsession in fact precedes even Gauguin, stretching back to the 1600s, and the start [...]

By: A D Jameson

A D Jameson — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 03:28:34 +0000

Back in 2007, the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts in Philadelphia, PA, had a "Pay-To-Play!" fundraiser to inaugurate "the Fred J. Cooper Memorial Organ." You could pay $25/minute or $75 for five minutes to play this "King of Instruments"—"a versatile 6,938-pipe beast with wide tonal palette and 'heft'" (that assessment according to the organ aficionados at the Wall Street Journal). A friend of mine said at the time that he was going to pay $75 to play 4'33" on the thing. It actually never happened, but that's still my favorite performance.

By: Shya Scanlon

Shya Scanlon — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:57:58 +0000

I attended a performance of 4’33″ recently, at a Cage event including the screening of Cage/Cunningham. It was lovely. What’s been your favorite recital?