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For They Know What They Do Know
Barbad Golshiri
Positions June 2009
Making art, as I’ve always put it, is a habit—a poor one in my case. Making art is not initially creation but constant repetition, salvaged by making puny differences in certain orders on the plane of the feasible. Art is, semiotically speaking, purely negative; it cannot be defined positively. And of course doing it entails not doing something else . Like some of my Iranian colleagues, I’m not doing it these days. We have all seen frames that we can freeze, stick…
e-flux Journal
Posted: September 1, 2009
Category
Contemporary Art
Subjects
Middle East, Orientalism, Media Critique