That's all goodif you want to busk it.
If you feel compelled to think of something truly meaningful to say about it, though ... you might be in trouble.
It's conceptual art, which is where the artist shoves something in your face and says 'this is art' and you recoil slightly and say 'oh right' and look dubious. Duchamp did it first with his urinal. This pickled shark is a more interesting object than a urinal. But most of the value of conceptual art comes from not expecting it. An endless series of irrelevant objects labelled as art would become boring fast (and in fact have, and this is called 'The Tate Modern').
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Tue 18 Oct 2005, 0:50,
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If you feel compelled to think of something truly meaningful to say about it, though ... you might be in trouble.
It's conceptual art, which is where the artist shoves something in your face and says 'this is art' and you recoil slightly and say 'oh right' and look dubious. Duchamp did it first with his urinal. This pickled shark is a more interesting object than a urinal. But most of the value of conceptual art comes from not expecting it. An endless series of irrelevant objects labelled as art would become boring fast (and in fact have, and this is called 'The Tate Modern').
i have to talkabout the philosophical ideas surrounding it.. as well as maybe an opinion or two... shouldnt be too hard.. especially with my funny as hell picture of giraffe.
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connor,
Tue 18 Oct 2005, 1:01,
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Wikipedia says his older son is called Connor.So... just go ask your dad why he pickled a shark.
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Tue 18 Oct 2005, 1:04,
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come to think of itmy dad is actually damien hirst. cheers felix.
( connor,
Tue 18 Oct 2005, 1:10,
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Doh. It's always the obvious things you miss.I think maybe Hirst meant the title of the piece seriously. Which is hard to believe, since it's a shark. But I think he thinks he's really communicating something about being frustrated with the fact that he's going to die, and wanting to live forever, which seems to be the sort of thing that bothers him philosophically. That and other human limitations like not being omnipresent, not being friends with everybody in the world, and little things like that.
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Tue 18 Oct 2005, 1:13,
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(s)omeone liv(ing)backwards is
"vile? no - emo!"
qed.
("vile? no - emo!"
qed.
thirsty a rare visitor these days,
Tue 18 Oct 2005, 1:20,
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i sort of got the serious thing as well.its not stritctly postmodern in the sense of just being bold and random to take the piss out of modernism.
( connor,
Tue 18 Oct 2005, 1:21,
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Possibly the difficulty of identifying with a sharkrelates to the "impossibility of death in the mind".
I notice that it doesn't work at all without the title to hint at an explanation. Maybe it would be good if a whole bunch of conceptual artists gave different titles to the same object. Would save space and money. Bargain.
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Tue 18 Oct 2005, 1:32,
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I notice that it doesn't work at all without the title to hint at an explanation. Maybe it would be good if a whole bunch of conceptual artists gave different titles to the same object. Would save space and money. Bargain.
