Expanding Internationalism - A Conference on ... - Mary Jane Jacob

The question still to be answered regards the ideologic consequence of
postmondernism (or postmodernist condition) in the East -- in the socialist
societies. While it seems that the ideological consequences are secondary to
the capitalist art-market, the contrary applies to the socialist society,
where there is no art market.
We can say (more in a for:m of concept) that the
so-called socialist and capitalist societies are "structured" by two different
discourses. While the capitalist society functions as a neurotic discourse,
which tries to neutralize the side effects of a pertinent
interpretation/production in the way that they are to be understood as
something accidental and marginal, the socialist society presents a painful
example of psychotic discourse function, which tries to neutralize the side
effects of a pertinent interpretation/production in a way to hide, to mask, to
rename them the history. The projects delineated above, whose strategies and
tactics can be defined as imitation, simulation, loss of the object or
production of the new object,, try to reaGh ~actJj7. ~§"Jl-i-~~9EX·
We can say
that the concepts/models/strategies of copying, repeating, imitation,
simulation ... are the ideal models of producing the new for:ms of representation
and presentation, and bring it, through the effects of mimicry,
territorialization, and binocularization, into discursive constructions which
can belong to the new situation of multiculturalism of the ' 90s.
What appears here, can appear precisely because it was absent.
The
"Other" is inscribed in this "passage," which is now referred to image,
memory, history, or cliche. These works/projects function as the "institution
of different cultures and histories made visible". It is here a matter of
repetition more than copying or reproducing.
Repetition and remembering are
not corrmutati ve because the artist started with repetition in order to achieve
remembering.
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