Too often, activist art is charged with an urgency
its very ephemerality bestows upon it, lingering only so long as its context permits, and doomed to an afterlife as dated social commentary.
«By collecting it, or selling at high prices, as you do, these things that no longer have much use, does not that run counter to
their very ephemerality — taking something intended to be transitory and short term and preserving it for eternity?
Not exact matches
The Hirshhorn Museum's description for the show is
very punctual and poetic at the same time: «In a world conditioned by the frantic, 24/7 flow of information and the
ephemerality of digital media, many moving - image artists are countering these tendencies with works that emphasize slower, more meditative forms of perception.