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COMME des MARXISTS -- White Columns, New York 2013 / Performa, 2013

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Who is wearing Marx ? (I swear by the nane of Marx)

a selection from the art world :

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The ART WORLD (rather a village) is a FUNCTIONING (un)/social/(ist) / capitalist / wanna be anarchist WORLD OF UTOPIA and ATOPIA ( a non place--- for most)

- a media camp, a projection screen, a ticket to prevent or enforce mental and other instabilities

- a market place for any ware and any end; for any purchase -- from " take away for free" stuff to unaffordable stuff, beyond the means to even oligarchs, billionaires and museum collectives (with no necessary difference in appearance between - cheap and it's total opposite)

- the art world is dealing is with appearances, disappearances, and reappearances in all possible transforming states of anything and anybody

 Anybody who mistakenly believing in hierarchies and orders and might kick somebody today, might get kicked tomorrow -- thought most likely league and class thinking get well too often reinforced even by stunning exceptions

the art world is moving and dealing with contradictions in every sense - i.e. in a dialectical, materialist, and common parlance sense.

- the art world is a unique place that allows simultaneously without any distinction and without any bias in respect or acknowledgement protagonists, observers and bystanders belonging to the wealthiest people of the world and those who exemplify modern, educated destitution and poverty next to each other in the same room, during the same event .....    ((( where else to you get that... I have no clue... ?))))

( for my WHITE COLUMNS event... I had the honor to work with, entertain and talk to with people who sleep on couches and are contemporary drifters and those who represent the 0.0000000001 % of high net worth individuals that might even exceed 12 zeros to describe them --- and I love everybody)

the art world is literally a playground that pushes anything to its extreme : big money and abject poverty; capitalism and speculation, lottery type of luck and its opposite, systematic programming, scheming and chaos, and so on and on....

the art worlds is informed by social behavior that is royal and utterly neo-feudal at the same time as democratic or anarchic; it can be neo-colonial, racists, nationalist and even chauvinistic as well as its opposite;

the art world is a  "the winner takes it all " and most uninformed members will never get to hear the music --- yet..too much music makes ears go deaf.

it is more often than not a court system with kings and empresses, with slaves and mandarins, with harems, prostitutes and outcasts - it can be invisible or saturated in media and marketing hype.

BEST OF IT  -  ANYTHING COULD  ALWAYS CHANGE FOR ANYBODY but most likely never does - since in the end ---- the big schools and names rule, rule over generations of anything and everything.

it is not so much what you do but who are you with, or in a more sophisticated and euphemistic, quasi-democratic parlance - CONTEXT. Bourdieu's small distinctions become mountains and oceans of differences and mega indifference towards anybody beyond the camp of initiated.

I could endlessly go on and rave AND bitch about THE MYRIAD faces / and  A...(body part)....s of the so-called art world  but i try to bring it now to an end by adding just one more aspect:

The art world is THE realm of  TODAY'S NEW TRANSCENDENTAL ARENA - the real opium of the masses - pure media opiates of the masses-  where all celebrity worlds wanna hang out and converge, create and hook up with new talents. 

In this resistance free area of the art world, capitalisms of all possible and impossible, legal and illegal worlds unite - and park your money, your dreams, your silhouettes, your muses, and your youth. Rejuvenate and reshuffle.

The artworld deals with liquid and non-llequid CAPITAL IN MOTION, IN PICUTRES, IN NUMBERS, IN TEXT, IN PRESCENCE AND ABSENTIA. it s accounting in all directions; it's a bit collateralization of debt obligations of desires and much more.

Finally, the art world is a mortgage free real-time consumption of the after-world's glamour and gloom, in glory, in glossy brilliance and melancholic sadness. 

ps: All langauges of the world are spoken here. come and get lost.

 

 

PS: what i just said above / so to say the obvious / has nothing to do with anybody shown below -

"They are all just my friends" -- when I was a philosophy student and first come to New York, I was sneaking along my friends who took me to the 1986 Birthday party of KEITH HEIRIING --- it might have been also the after party of the WARHOL-J. M . Basquia party at the Palladium  -- and i was in the VIP space. Andy W. would stand at a wall and a long line of people paying respect to him started to form. The place was full of celebrities from the art world, the media empire and the fashion world (I was most impressed to see Yves St. Laurent and those faces I, as a naive Austrian teenager had seen on German media). So I also queued up and made it finally to Any who spent an average of 5 - 10 seconds with anybody shaking hands. So when it was my turn -- full with European academic trash and cultural prejudices -- I wanted to be smart and asked him: What are all these people asking you  ?

Warhol stepped back a bit, adjusted his eye balls, stared at me for a second top to bottom and up again and put on a special smile before he uttered that amazing line which nearly traumatized me and really made me wanna become an artist  - at least - put an end to my ambitions as a philosopher: "They are all just my friends."

 

 

 

So see below:

All my friends... to whom i wanna thank for wearing KARL MARX

(see also my KARL MARX - TEA PART images - a parallel project refering to KARL MARX s amazing but not so known sentence: PROPER TEA IS THEFT

 

 

morei mages will be posted soon - names and details added.. sorry

 

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Matthew Higgs, artist, curator

 

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Pamela Sanders, supporter of the arts

 

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annanymous

 

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NIcola Lees, Curator

 

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Rutherford Chang , Marie Vic

 

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Bree Zucker, artist

 

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Carol Cohan, art dealer

 

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Karl Holmsqvist , me

 

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David Harvey, (marxists philosopher, - not art world - but gets courted by the art world)

 

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Alissa McKenndrick, artist

 

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Sabine Breitwieser, curator

 

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Nicolaus, artist (name comes)

 

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Spencer Sweeney, artist

 

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Knight Landsman, editor

 

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Carissa Dalrymple, curators

 

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Tom, art installer

 

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Nickolaus Calabrese, artist

 

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Isaac Julian, artist

 

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from the event:

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Karl Holmsqvist, Robert Fittermann, artists / poets

 

 

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Matthew HIggs, artist, curator

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KARL MARX VISITS DAVID ZWIRNER ON 20TH STREET, NEW YORK

Palermo, Who knows the beginning of the revolution #and who knows the end ,II, 1976/2013

dress, silk screen on cotten, Modelling: Thea Westreich

KARL MARX VISITS DAVID ZWIRNER ON 20TH STREET, NEW YORK

Palermo, Untitled, (For Rosa Luxenbourg), 1976/2013

foullard, silkscreen on silk

 

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KARL MARX VISITS DAVID ZWIRNER ON 20TH STREET, NEW YORK

Palermo, Who knows the beginning of the revolution #and who knows the end ,II, 1976/2013

dress, silk screen on cotten, Modelling: Jacqueline Burckhardt

KARL MARX VISITS DAVID ZWIRNER ON 20TH STREET, NEW YORK

Palermo, Untitled, (For Rosa Luxenbourg), 1976/2013

foullard, silkscreen on silk

 

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KARL MARX VISITS DAVID ZWIRNER ON 20TH STREET, NEW YORK

Palermo, The Engima of Karl, 1976/2013

dress, silk screen on cotten, Modelling: Bice Curiger

KARL MARX VISITS DAVID ZWIRNER ON 20TH STREET, NEW YORK

Palermo, Untitled, (For Rosa Luxenbourg), 1976/2013

foullard, silkscreen on silk

 

modelling: Bice Curiger

 

 

 

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Shelly Aarons

 

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Linda Yablonsky

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Janice Guy

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David Colman, Artist

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Peter Fend, Artist

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Ingo Niermann, Writer

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Leigh Ledare, Artist

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Woflgang Meier, Artist

 

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artist Isaac Julian

 

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Peter Fend, Artist

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David Coleman, Artist

 

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Barry Schwabsky, Artist

 

 

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James --- artist

 

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Claire Bishop, critic