February 11, 2010
+At The Speed of Internetting
JEFF KOONS DIES IN TOKYO BLAST is being reported from the ‘Unknown Journal’s’ site. Not only does this seem like an absurd media situation because of the claim of an art-terrorist group, but the back and forth questioning of the ‘reality’ of the situation, via the comments section, gives us a wonderful opportunity to admire the ‘everything is critical’ apparatus of art applied to the world of blogging. Perhaps the headline also gives us an identification of blogging aggregation as a performative tactic, or perhaps this actually did happen. Either way, the opportunity to exercise preparation for the death of one of art’s greatest living celebrities is an appropriate activity to participate in, yet hopefully the exercise is being started well in advance of the actual event [of said death]. I wouldn’t imagine death upon anyone.
However, if this death news is an aggregation stunt, the author will be glad to know that I did find their blog through it and I’m now linking others to it.
The excerpt below was taken directly from the about page:
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obscure modern artist. The modern
artist eats exile; is resistance; seeks
visions.A journal of autobiography,
biography and resistance -
the retelling of unknown.
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And to Jeff Koons, Live Long and Prosper.
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R.I.P.
I’d hoped that you’d eventually follow your own constellations and end up reading about yourself here. I’d imagined the experience being akin to the situations you produce on your blog, which by the way, is super fantastic! Your ethically confounding ‘news’ situations are deeply rewarding and start a tiny flutter in my heart that I hope turns into massive provocative-art-writing vibrations. I will remain, your fan. Good luck!