Comments | shara_fares: The importance of being earnest

shara_fares

The importance of being earnest

Dec 11, 2006 13:07

Has Spoo told you about our total artistic-ness this weekend? We are, like, inappropriately cool and artful ( Read more... )

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kelly_jones December 11 2006, 21:13:01 UTC

You DO know. I'd argue that if the cheesy art supplies labelled Garbage had been the actual installation, that would be more like postmodernism than modernism, and postmodernism is definitely over. I'm hoping that the term itself is over. I'm with you on irritation at pretentious installations, though!

Any pics of the really mature googly-eyed installations?

Sigh. Wish I'd been there. I love making fun of shit with youse guys.

punchpuppy December 12 2006, 00:53:49 UTC

Dude, it's so totally popomo. In fact, one could argue (as my students like to say) that it's sotopopomo.

I'm going to use that sometime. I mean, I just did, but I'm going to use it again--ideally in a venue where more than four people can witness my clever, biting, pretonscious wit.

shara_fares December 19 2006, 16:45:34 UTC

Ok, pomo. But still not installation.

And don't worry. You were there in spirit. You'll see.

janey_emm December 12 2006, 01:59:27 UTC

Sock Puppet 1: You're so bourgeois.

Sock Puppet 2: Fuck you! That was out of line.

Ah, the Khyber. Glad to see you haven't abandoned all of our Haligonian pretentious-art-in-bars ways.

punchpuppy December 12 2006, 11:13:06 UTC

I prefer to co-opt the term "nouveau proletariat." Now *that* sounds like the name of a pretonscious sotopopomo band if ever there was one. Hit singles may or may not include "Top-Heavy Superstructure," "This is Not a Sotopopomo Band," "Fuck you, Sock Puppet!" and "Good Clean Marxist-Feminist Times."

Proletariat--it's the new bourgeois. Run don't walk.

janey_emm December 13 2006, 12:13:02 UTC

Brilliant! My next band? Janey Emm and the Nouveau Proletariat. We will kick Nouvelle Vague's ass.

punchpuppy December 13 2006, 14:13:41 UTC

My band will be called Sock Puppet's New Regime. None of the songs will have recognizable lyrics--the vocals will consist of mumbling and repeated references to "baby" and "mama" (symbols of proletariat and bourgeoisie, obviously).

I think we've got the material for a swank hyperreality show. All we need is some bastard judges dressed all in black and we're all set.

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