EL TEATRO DEL ARTE. Colección “la Caixa”. Arte Contemporáneo
Centro de Arte Caja de Burgos 3 de octubre – 12 enero 2014 El teatro del arte es una exposición que reúne diecisiete obras realizadas por algunos de los autores más relevantes de la Colección de Arte Contemporáneo Fundación “la Caixa”, las cuales configuran un auténtico panóptico sobre algunas de las principales tendencias estéticas desde principios de los ochenta hasta la actualidad. Instalaciones emblemáticas para la historia del arte, como las de Paul McCarthy, Juan Muñoz, Bruce Nauman o Allan McCollum, conviven junto a piezas de reputados artistas del panorama nacional e internacional, entre los cuales se encuentran Muntadas, Esther Ferrer y Hans-Peter Feldmann. Verdaderos clásicos de los años ochenta y noventa, por ejemplo Carlos Pazos, Katharina Fritsch y Stefan Hablützel, comparten espacio con trabajos muy representativos de la última década, según manifiestan las propuestas de Roni Horn, Jordi Colomer y Jessica Stockholder. Finalmente, merece destacarse la presencia de artistas cuyas trayectorias empiezan a ser validadas por diversos museos de todo el mundo, como Sharon Lockhart y Daniel García Andújar, quienes muestran sus proyectos al lado de Robin Rhode e Ignacio Uriarte, autores muy jóvenes pero que, sin embargo, se hallan en plena efervescencia creativa. El proyecto El arte contemporáneo parece haber radicalizado esa idea, típica
Language (property)
1997 Website with trademarked sentences linked with URLs www.irational.org/tttp/TM/trademark.html Presented in the exhibition as wall installation Daniel García Andújar – the Spanish media artist better known by his company name Technologies To The People — almost ten years ago created with Language (property) a work addressing the increasing privatization and commodification of language. A plain HTML page presents a list of sentences that have become registered trademarks and thus the property of their corporate owners. Examples include »Where do you want to go today?™« (Microsoft), »A better return on information ™« (SAP), »Moving at the speed of business™« (UPS), »What you never thought possible™« (Motorola). By giving his project the title Remember, language is not free™, Andújar anticipated the disputes surrounding ›intellectual property‹ in the following years (and increasingly evident in the second half of the 1990s with the ruthless scramble for domain names in the World Wide Web). While on the website the individual sentences are linked to the copyright notices of the relevant companies, a large-format, almost ›immersive‹, wall Presented has been chosen for the exhibition.(Inke Arns)
On the Contemporaneity of Media Arts
by Inke Arns (published in: Nam June Paik Award 2006, Frankfurt am Main 2006) Almost ten years ago with Language (property), Spanish media artist Daniel Garcia Andujar, better known under his company name Technologies to the People, developed a work which addressed the increasing privatisation and commodification of language. On a simple HTML page he listed phrases which have been registered as trademarks, and with that, had become the property of their respective owners, for example, “Where do you want to go today?TM” (Microsoft), “A better return on informationTM” (SAP), “Moving at the speed of businessTM” (UPS), “What you never thought possibleTM” (Motorola). By entitling this project “Remember, language is not freeTM” Andujar anticipated the disputes concerning “intellectual property”, which emerged in the following years (visible as early as the second half of the 1990s in the fierce battles for the allocation of domain names on the world wide web).