Upon a light evaluation of this random video and other interviews, such as those on the Dancer in the Dark DVD extras, nothing she says is super way out there or as random as oranges in sauerkraut. But when you listen and look closer -- and I'm fully aware that I may be just reading into her too much -- it becomes apparent that she really doesn't see things the same way that normal people see things. And while that'd be a hinderance for integration into any technically oriented job where communication and a unified vision are crucial, for her art, it's magical.
Often a society will come to a consensus on the "proper" or "common" ways to view ideas, emotions, the meaning of life, etc. But pioneering artists who have completely different perspectives and observations of those very same ideas and feelings challenge people to rethink the consensus. Constant challenges to social norms helps to allow a culture to renew itself, as well as help form an identity in each individual in that culture.
What is often sad is that such pioneering visions are lost because no one in present society has neither the desire nor the vocabulary to understand that vision. How many ideas are commonplace now and are thanks in part or in whole by people who lived their lives in obscurity or ignominy?
..and uh, I was just about to go into a tangent about how many modern revolutionary artists like Pollock and Basquiat are becoming hugely famous in their lifetimes, a fame larger than Mozart or Michaelangelo or Jesus ever got in their lifetimes, and the implications of this, but I've got to get to bed.
So.. uh.. the new moral of this comment is: Björk sure does rock.
Matthew Barney does some amazing things as well. I don't usually find a whole lot of inspiration from film or visual art, but all of his pieces struck me dumbfounded when it was up here at the SF MOMA. Did his Drawing Restraint or Cremaster series ever make it down to museums in L.A.?
I absolutely agree. As my last.fm profile reveals, she is probably my favorite musician/artist in the world.
I love her whimsy and what I love about this line is that it totally captures that "what if?" outlook that is always present in her work and her interviews. I can absolutely hear her saying this fictional line.
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Upon a light evaluation of this random video and other interviews, such as those on the Dancer in the Dark DVD extras, nothing she says is super way out there or as random as oranges in sauerkraut. But when you listen and look closer -- and I'm fully aware that I may be just reading into her too much -- it becomes apparent that she really doesn't see things the same way that normal people see things. And while that'd be a hinderance for integration into any technically oriented job where communication and a unified vision are crucial, for her art, it's magical.
Often a society will come to a consensus on the "proper" or "common" ways to view ideas, emotions, the meaning of life, etc. But pioneering artists who have completely different perspectives and observations of those very same ideas and feelings challenge people to rethink the consensus. Constant challenges to social norms helps to allow a culture to renew itself, as well as help form an identity in each individual in that culture.
What is often sad is that such pioneering visions are lost because no one in present society has neither the desire nor the vocabulary to understand that vision. How many ideas are commonplace now and are thanks in part or in whole by people who lived their lives in obscurity or ignominy?
..and uh, I was just about to go into a tangent about how many modern revolutionary artists like Pollock and Basquiat are becoming hugely famous in their lifetimes, a fame larger than Mozart or Michaelangelo or Jesus ever got in their lifetimes, and the implications of this, but I've got to get to bed.
So.. uh.. the new moral of this comment is: Björk sure does rock.
Matthew Barney does some amazing things as well. I don't usually find a whole lot of inspiration from film or visual art, but all of his pieces struck me dumbfounded when it was up here at the SF MOMA. Did his Drawing Restraint or Cremaster series ever make it down to museums in L.A.?
I love her whimsy and what I love about this line is that it totally captures that "what if?" outlook that is always present in her work and her interviews. I can absolutely hear her saying this fictional line.