Platform for (un)Solicited Research and Advice

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RESPONSE TO BRIEF #7

Platform for (un)Solicited Research and Advice
(Lauren Alexander, Lado Darakhvelidze, Jimini Hignett, Anna Hoetjes, Jeroen Marttin, Eva Olthof, Julio Pastor and Patrícia Sousa)

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NICE:

Jeroen Marttin

-Yes
-Yes
-Biennials try to tell me what is art, even if it isn’t that nice.

AUTHORSHIP

Jeroen Marttin

The Death of the Author

The Death of the Author is an important text from structuralist and critic Roland Barthes, published for the first time in 1967. But more imporant the Death of the Author is a concept in art theory about the giving of meaning. Barthes argued that the viewer was the one who was important for the making of meaning. The author was the one who wrote the story down (or painted it on a canvas) and afterwards his job was done. He might have put his own meaning in it, but a viewer could still extract a totally different meaning. More »

Jeroen Marttin

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I LIKE TO THINK I WOULD SAY NO… I WOULDN’T

Jeroen Marttin

JM Brief1

Dear M.
Today I was invited to participate in a very prestigious biennial. They saw my show in D. last year and want me to make a new work for them. I always said I would never want to be part of a biennial, easy if you never get the chance to be involved. I asked if I could think about it, they were surprised to hear that, I guess nobody had to think before they accepted, but it was OK.
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