The use of the readymade such as Marcel Duchamp’s works in art has been present in art since the mid nineteen-tens. His readymades being items in which he finds and presents or finds and puts together. The readymade within the dada style is something which seems to reoccur in my essays at uni and something which I am not sure if I like but have always been intrigued by. In my research for my essays I have talked about contemporary artists who use ready made objects or found objects, like Simryn Gill with works like ‘Roadkill’, though I have never talked about or thought about readymades in the terms described in the paper ‘Arty Party’ by Hal Foster.
He talks about, in terms of the artworks, transforming the found or readymade idea to incorporate things such as TV shows and Hollywood films as being found images. The paper talks about Pierre Huyghe who re-shot parts of ‘Dog Day Afternoon’, an Al Pacino movie with a real life bank robber/protagonist, as well as the idea which presents itself in this quote. “It’s true that in a world of shareware, information can appear as the ultimate readymade, as data to be reprocessed and sent on”. This is the idea that the ready made can be more then an object but instead an idea or moving feature.
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