Wednesday, August 25, 2010

I find the works listed in 'Conversation Pieces', by Grant H. Kester very intrigueing, in the fact that he claims that there is very little modern discourse that can stand as a framework for the works by WochenKlausur, Burke and McAvera. The assertion that these works 'should solicit participation and involvement so openly...is antithetical to modernist and postmodernist art and art theory,' I agree with, it seems collective practice is becoming much more apparent in works such as the following video, titled 'Lux Aurumque' by Eric Whitacre, which involves hundreds of people recording their voices, and performing as an harmonious choir. This work exemplifies communal organisation and donation of time and skill to realise the work. Much less an avant-garde statement on the complacency of virtual vocabulary, as it is a subversion on the communicational opportunities associated with the internet. In other words it fits within what Kester posits as identities that are positioned within the system as opposed to those on the avant-garde of it.

Eric Whitacre's Virtual Choir - 'Lux Aurumque'

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