Concept Art: Speech Acts

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Concept Art: Speech Acts 

Expression of emotions      Assertions     Questions     Answers     Creations, curses and greetings      Suggestions and requests      Accusations     Appeals, predictions, proposals, threats      Art against art    Speech Acts        Concept Art        Radical Art (Home Page)         Text Paintings: Expressive Speech Acts Fears Ben Vautier:"J'ai peur de m'être trompé sur le sens de la beauté vrai" – 1959 Ben Vautier: "J'ai peur de n'avoir plus rien à dire." – 1995   Hopes & Ambitions Ben Vautier: "J'espère que cette toile ne vivra jamais une guerre atomique" – 1960 Ben Vautier: "J'aimerais faire rire" – 1995 Ben Vautier: "Ich will berühmt sein." Boasts Ben Vautier: "Je suis le plus important" – 1970 Salvo: "Io sono il migliore" – 1970   Regrets "J'ai voulu abandonner l'art mais j'en ai fait de l'art" – 1970 "Je voulais faire du nouveau et j'ai fait comme les autres" – 1973 "Je voulais être important et il n'y a pas d'importance" – 1973 Explanations & Apologies Sigmar Polke: "Höhere Wesen befahlen: rechte obere Ecke schwarz malen!" 1969 Ben Vautier: "Il faut me prendre comme je suis. Je ne peux pas être autre chose que moi-même." 1977 Sadness Ben Vautier: "J'ai le caffard" – 1970 Bas Jan Ader: "I'm too sad to tell you." 1970       Existence On Kawara: "I am still alive" – 1973 Barbara Kruger: Untitled ("I shop therefore I am") – 1987       Health Timm Ulrichs: "Ich kann keine Kunst mehr sehen!" – 1975 Tim Ayres: "I'm getting much better" – 2003       Consolation Tim Ayres: "We don't live forever anyway" – 1992           Speech Acts        Concept Art        Radical Art         Assertions  Ben Vautier "La seul gauche va dans le sens de l'histoire ..." – 1959 "Au commencement était le verbe" – 1992 "We are pigs" – 1995   Jenny Holzer: Truisms "Money creates taste" – 1977 "Private property created crime" – 1979/1981 "Slipping into madness is good for the sake of comparison" – 1993/1994 "You are a victim of the rules you live by" – 1990 "Murder has its sexual side" – 1993/1994 "Abuse of power comes as no surprise" 2004 "True freedom is frightful" – 2006 "The future is stupid" Extrenal Link: Holzer's Truisms        Barbara Kruger Untitled ("In space no one can hear you scream") – 1987 Untitled ("Your body is a battleground") 1989      Speech Acts        Concept Art        Radical Art         Questions Can we say that a kind of grammatical chasm exists between the form of the proposition and that of the question? Is there a kind of world, as it were, of the question, whose difference, verging on the suspicion of a kind of lack, sets it in perpetual opposition to that other world, that of the statement? [...] And when it comes to actions, are there those that one could designate as interrogative? And what about objects? Robert Morris: "Professional Rules." Critical Inquiry, 23 (Winter 1997).    Ben Vautier "Qui vous dit qu'il n'est pas beau ce tableau?" – 1961 "C'est beau n'est-ce pas?" "Est-ce bien de l'art?" – 2005 Mario Merz "Che fare?" 1968 Jenny Holzer         "What urge will save us now that sex won't?" 1983, 1985 "When you place your hand on the Bible, do you think about eternal questions: why are we here instead of nothing?" 2004 Barbara Kruger  Untitled 1991 Look for the moment when pride becomes contempt. Who is free to choose? Who is beyond the law? Who is healed? Who is housed? Who speaks? Who is silenced? Who salutes longest? Who prays loudest? Who dies first? Who laughs last?    Speech Acts        Concept Art        Radical Art         Answers Edward Ruscha: "Very True", 1974 Stefan Brueggemann: "No, No, No, No", 2005  Edward Ruscha: "OK"       Sylvie Fleury" "Yes To All", 2005           Speech Acts        Concept Art        Radical Art         Performatives Creation Robert Rauschenberg: "This is a portrait of Iris Clert if I say so" 1961 Curses   Edward Ruscha: "Oof" – 1963      Ben Vautier: "Malheur à par qui le scandale arrive" Christopher Wool: "Fuckem if they can't take a joke" – 1992 Salutes Peter Norman, Tommie Smith, John Carlos: The Black Panther Salute, 1968  Klaus Staeck: Wir setzen uns durch, 1968       Ben Vautier: "Ciao viva!" – 1984 Ian Hamilton Finlay: "Je vous salue Marat" – 1990 Haim Steinbach: "Yo." – 2004    Tracey Emin: "I kiss you" – 2006          Speech Acts        Concept Art        Radical Art         Suggestions & Requests  Suggestions   Ben Vautier: "Buvez Coca-Cola frais" – 1960           Ben Vautier: "Le Bon Lait"        James Rosenquist: Win A New House For Christmas, 1964      Robert Indiana: Eat, 1962      Robert Indiana: Die, 1962        Ben Vautier: "Regardez ailleurs" – 1965     Ben Vautier: "imaginez autre chose" – 1965     Ben Vautier: "L'internet est inutile. Rentrez chez vous."       Stephen Kaltenbach: Advertisements in ArtForum, 1969          Jenny Holzer: "It is in your self-interest to find a way to be very tender." Dennis Oppenheim: Stutter Pen, 1994 Christian Robert-Tissot: Sans Titre ("Smile Baby. Life is fun.") – 1995     Barbara Kruger: Façade, 2005 (Detail) Banksy: "Abandon Hope (Weekdays 9am-5pm)"   Requests   Ben Vautier: "Regardez-moi; cela suffit." 1966 Bas Jan Ader: "Please don't leave me" – 1969 Gerrit-Jan de Rook begging in the streets of The Hague, ca. 1970.     Jenny Holzer: "Protect me from what I want" – 1979/1981 Christopher Wool: "If you can't take a fucking joke you can get the fuck out of my house." – 1992 Olivier Mosset: Sans Titre ["Help"], 2002 Graham Park: "I need your assistance" – 2006            Speech Acts        Concept Art        Radical Art         Barbara Kruger's Accusations Untitled ("Your moments of joy have the precision of military strategy"), 1980 Untitled ("Your manias become science"), 1981         Untitled ("You construct intricate rituals which allow you to touch the skin of other men"), 1981        Untitled ("You are not yourself")       Untitled ("Your comfort is my silence"), 1981 Untitled ("I am a slice of your life"), 1981           Art against art        Speech Acts        Concept Art        Home Page: Radical Art         Appeals, predictions, proposals, refusals, threats  Refusals Asger Jorn: "L'Avant-garde se rend pas" 1962     Barbara Kruger: Untitled ("We don't need another hero"), 1987 Appeals Ben Vautier: "Liberta per tutti"  Ben Vautier: "Pas d'art sans vérité" Guy Debord: "Abolition du Travail Aliéné", 1963 (Text on 1959 "industrial painting" by Giuseppe Pinot Gallizio) Guy Debord: "Dépassement de l'art", 1963 Guy Debord: "Réalisation de la Philosophie", 1963 Reference Robert Ohrt: Phantom Avantgarde. Eine Geschichte der Situationistischen Internationale und der Modernen Kunst.  Hamburg: Lutz Schulenburg, 1990 (pp. 266/270/329). Acknowledgment Guy Debord images thanks to XB2N. Proposal Ben Vautier "Let's fuck" 1979           Threats Barbara Kruger: Untitled ("We will undo you") – 1982    Ben Vautier: "Les temps sont venus" – 1999       Predictions        Ben Vautier: "Le marché de l'art s'écroule demain à 18h30" – 1990      Jenny Holzer: "The beginning of the war will be secret" – 2004      Art about art          Statements against art        Paradox       Art & Life     Radical Art  [homepage]       Art against Art   Ben Vautier: "Pas d'Art", 1961 Jörg Immendorf: "Hört auf zu malen!", 1966 Ben Vautier: "L'Art est Inutile / Pas d'Art / A Bas l'Art", 1965 Timm Ulrichs: "Ich kann keine Kunst mehr sehen!", 1975 John Baldessari: "I will not make any more boring art", 1971