Notes #3

The hand is considered to be the ultimate tool, because of its ablility to use all the other ones. Since humanity is really committed to make the body as well as the mind obsolete in everyday life the question of which tools we use becomes more and more relevant. Artistic practice itself is always confronted with this problem even though it is seldomly made explicit. Far too often artists ignore the technical side of their activity, thus unproportionally emphasising the expressive function of art. But the manner how something is said is as important and as political as what is actually said.
At the same time there is no clear answer, no right way of speaking. It is as valid to use antique methods and to perform a painting with bare hands on a wall as to make 3D prints out of AI generated data. The work can be considered successful as long as the tools used are reflected within the process and its result. Methodology can relate to the reported content.

Art and beauty are arbitrary. this cannot be ignored by artists for which reason they have to take a stance towards their arbitrariness and the arbitrariness of our relationship towards the world. In taking a stance they have to be clear and consequent – neither logical, nor conform.