tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7461948747659071092.post6363515973712864063..comments2023-09-29T02:49:02.989-07:00Comments on An Emphatic Umph: Knowing ThingsDaniel Coffeenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03912050391869734890noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7461948747659071092.post-75905330777921542892011-12-22T18:54:25.331-08:002011-12-22T18:54:25.331-08:00Wonderful! It’s all about how you take up things a...Wonderful! It’s all about how you take up things and how you let those things make you as a person! I was recently mesmerized by this German artist whose work is being currently displayed at the New Museum in New York (O how I wish I could just fly there). Carsten Höller’s work is called Experience, and if you look at the artist’s background a little, he was a hard core scientist. Like he had all these degrees in agriculture science, biology, and insects etc, but from his work it seems as if he had been practicing art his entire life. Now he makes art out of his experience in a science laboratory and totally inverts the whole rhetoric of science itself. Instead of him manipulating things in a lab and calling them “objects under scrutiny” what he does is, he makes this whole laboratory like experience in the New Museum and lets people be effected by objects in the laboratory rather than us, humans having the objects experience our crazy experiments.<br />I think his Experience is trying to show how even though we egotistical beings think we can control and manipulate everything around us, but the effect of things on us surpasses way more than we effect things. <br />I personally thought his idea to be absolutely fabulous! To me it’s just an absolute inversion of the scientific rhetoric that has been used for centuries. Here’s the link if any of you haven’t seen Holler’s marvelous Experience!<br /><br />http://experiencewiki-newmuseum.tumblr.com/αλήθειαhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04198838378463465730noreply@blogger.com