Constructive Nihilism

Brooding on constructive nihilism the work recent dome building mathematician has tantalised my thoughts. Whilst its all a day's work with the perpendicular sides of a dodecahedron equaling the square root of the sum of its remaining sides all in the blink of an eye for this happy as Larry (not Harvey) Pim's project Ludopolis has shown me how the world is full born burners who never find burning man

(Pim Conradi, Ludopolis)

This structure, as you can see satisfies all aesthetic requirements with a brilliant use of ambient colour and the geometry and symatry of the structure making you bubble inside. "Constructive" in making something but not yet 'nihist', Pim's dome is just wating for a desert yet it is architecture - a whole different kettle of fish, a complete self help structure if ever i saw one.

The key component of most burner art is that it is often interactive as well as displaying a quality of workmanship that compliment a conceptual idea trying to to be transfered. Only very few real day artists come close to this. These are often arts events organised through organisations likecontinental drift or Las Vegnas - specialist art organisations that work in producing fucking cool events that don't over tax you like this..

(Tracy Emin, Bed)

A friend of mine recently went for an interview at the university where this person went to and was criticised for saying that art is good for communicating ideas. Since art is all media how do you avoid this. What was good about Irish's art project at the burn is that it was so obviously the product of his deranged mind and clearly a boyhodo fantasy, yet it looked fucking cool and impressive - No clear message but the point is is that it satisfied the artistic variables in my head that this bed never could.

This bed, right in front of me but yet so far away in a uniformed gallery upheld by archaic traditions that are governed by short sighted patrons and rich wankers. Yet not all modern art is a complete fallacy, you can't help but be impressed by this!

(Martin Kippenberger, The happy ending of Franz Kafka's America)

The idea of it and the scale is completly amazing and whilst the German remains one of my favourite artists, the fact is that it lacks the key component of so much of the art i see at burning man. The ability to erode the boundaries between artist and audience, the removal of celebrity status and all boundaries...Something that the current art world is aeons behind.

In any case I am no zealot, alot of what i see at burning man is shit but the point is that whether it's good or not becomes less of a pressing issue as the society that you live in for ten days does not strive for either good or bad, there is only a constructive nihilism, a will to create in the face of all creation and a system where all art is equal and everything has its own space.