CoP: Print Culture Part 2
- ‘Late age of print’
- ‘Aura’ – special sensation of art, art is superior. – product of genius’s and great men.
- The aura of traditional art starts to wither away, becomes less special.
- In order to smash that kind of pretentiousness, people making art themselves.
- People organizing exhibitions themselves – entrepreneurial head on – forming independent collectives.
- Right now were in the digital age of print.
- There’s been a return of older methods of handmade production which are returning to the art industry – screen printing, letter press.
- These methods are being taught now – there is an appetite for them.
- Why are people still interested in these techniques?
- We live in a world which is based on computer screens – when we create something by hand, touching the raw materials, feeling our ay through a recipe for example, tasting, adjusting, engaging ALL the senses, can be a shooting release.
- People are discovering that doing things slowly often means doing them better and enjoying it more – living life instead of rushing through it.
- Our obsession with speed, with cramming more and more into every minute, means that we race through life instead of actually living it. – we struggle to relax.
- Use slowness to unlock your creativity – start by clearing space from your schedule for rest, daydreaming and serendipity.
- Slow food manifesto – tedious-ness of fast food, everything is the same.
- Learn how to cook your own meals rather than something being premade for you.
- Fast fashion – ‘unbeatably cheap top’ designed like hamburgers to be traded in large volumes.
- New styles copied by high street brands from high-end designers and catwalk.
- Exploits consumer demand for novelty.
- Slow design – not focusing on the product itself, not on the quick solution – thinking about how your practice relates to the people and world around you.
- Print culture – handmade factors are very important – it has a human politic element to it.
- Anthony Burrill – handmade artist
- Theprintproject – based in Shipley – 500 year old print technology – revivalism – sustainability.
- Richard Lawrence – pink milk float – mobile travelling print studio.
- Nicolas Bourriaud – relational aesthetics. – move away from making things to creating artworks as ‘social interstice’
- Forming human relationship within a particular social context. – Relational art.
- Not just about the print – about the relations that are formed through that print.
- Technological reproduction of art removes – creativity, genius, eternal value, tradition, authority, authenticity, autonomy, distance, mystery – AURA
- Handmade techniques bringing this aura back.
- Connecting and networking.
- Time sensitive artworks to be experienced under specific conditions – a specific date or time.
- Relational works aim to produce social relations rather than replicate or illustrate already existing ones.
- We are returning to traditional techniques and production methods for quality – Glastonbury Free Press – The Print Project.
- New handmade processes create an aura of design after being trashed by new technology.
- We are in an era now where it has moved beyond print culture. – post digital aesthetic.
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