http://blog.kennethflak.com Contemporary Dance and Music Sun, 06 Feb 2011 11:10:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://blog.kennethflak.com/?p=117&cpage=1#comment-216 Richard Siegal Sun, 06 Feb 2011 11:10:29 +0000 http://blog.kennethflak.com/?p=117#comment-216 Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and…play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do. -Mark Twain

]]> http://blog.kennethflak.com/?p=128&cpage=1#comment-20 Kenneth Flak Thu, 09 Dec 2010 11:01:29 +0000 http://blog.kennethflak.com/?p=128#comment-20 Absolutely. Following the intentions can be very, very interesting, but I prefer to view them separately from the artwork. Hoever: If the intention is clearly stated in connection with the work it should probably be seen as a part of the work itself, and, in that way it will become relevant…Especially since I don’t really believe that a stated intention is the same as the “real” intention of the artist. One can only guess at the complex interactions going on in an artist’s mind before creating a work. Most of these processes are probably not even available to the artists themselves… It follows then, that whatever an artist declare to be the intention of the work is a construct in the same way as the work itself (and can, then, be viewed as belonging to the same complex of manifest phenomena: Stuff that we can talk about, in other words…)

]]> http://blog.kennethflak.com/?p=128&cpage=1#comment-16 Minke Elisa Brands Wed, 08 Dec 2010 14:08:49 +0000 http://blog.kennethflak.com/?p=128#comment-16 I totally agree. On the other hand it can be very interesting to follow an artists development and his or her changing intentions.

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