An
easier, faster art theory:
STUFF,

is everywhere. Things
that are new, now and hip are suitable candidates for STUFF
things that arrived in our everyday lives only recently and which we cannot
do without.
STUFF that we see in media persistently.
STUFF that represents in material form a media driven trend or even fad understandable
by a wide social spectrum. STUFF is not exclsuionary, snobbish or upmarket,
it's immediately understandable. Its not only instantly recognisable, its
instantly accepted and normalised.Things that are very futuristic and convienent.
Things that five or ten years ago we would have been excited to have seen
in reality but now its almost made our daily lives more boring, sytematic,
and reduced.
STUFF
MATERIAL
DIGITAL CAMERAS
IPODS
DVDS
3G PHONES
SMALL NEWSPAPERS
WRITABLE CDS
OUTER CITY AIRPORTS
BLUE TOOTH ENABLED PRODUCTS
FLAT SCREENS
OS X
SOUTH AFRICAN WINE
ARTY MAGAZINES ON DISPLAY IN AN ARTY SHOP
BIO FOOD
NEW CIGARETTE WARNINGS
THE ATKINS DIET
FLASH BUTTONS
OSAMA
ANTI AMERICAN OPINION
CLOTHES FROM TOPSHOP
LORD OF THE RINGS
TROUBLE IN THE MIDDLE EAST
DOWNLOAD TRENDS
ITUNES FOR WINDOWS
VICTORIA AND DAVID BECKHAM
SUCCESSFUL LAUNCHES OF OUTMODED FASHION HOUSES
REALITY TV SHOWS
STAR MAKING SHOWS LIKE IDOL
GOOGLE, EBAY
THE UNLINGERING THOUGHT IN YOUR HEAD - "HMM, WHATEVER HAPPENED TO FLASH
MOBS?"
SPELL CHECK FUNCTIONS IN EMAIL APPS
STUFF can be sold
on Ebay, not in galleries. Any person who wants to sell stuff that
they have made or found should not do so in galleries.
STUFF also has to do with the banalty of progress, it does not celebrate progress,
rather it duplicates it for the billionth time.
STUFF is about progress rather then pop, its about saturation rather the repetition,
its about banality rather then marilyn, its about instant recognition rather
then instant art.
STUFF has an expiry date. It must not pretend to have a long shelf life. STUFF
is a trend rather then a movement.
STUFF must advertise itself.
STUFF has no meaning
EXAMPLES OF STUFF STYLE CREATIONS BY REAL ARTISTS
NIKOLA TOSICS POETRY
damien HIRST (A GREAT CANDIDATE, AS HE IS KNOWN BY EVERYONE) HE HIMSELF WOULD
BE CONSIDERED AS SUITABLE MATERIAL FOR STUFF ART
TOGETHERNESS.ORG
DOMAIN POETRY
MILTOS PAAINTINGS OF ABIO THE DOG
JULIAN OPAN
ANY ARTIST INVITED TO FOR SPECIAL SHOWS AT THE TATE OR GUGENHEIN
A
FOREFATHER OF STUFF WOULD BE THE EAST GERMAN ARTIST GERHARD RICHTER WHOSE WORK
'ATLAS', WAS A COLLECTION OF STUFF.
Stuff
will feel irrelavnt and 'so what' in no time at all. It will lose the little
visual power that it had in the first place after maybe even a few months
Where will you see stuff?
You
will see stuff everywhere.
You
might even have a boring dream about it.
You will find it
in offices, malls, shops, galleries, and websites.
You will see it being
used by people.
One way to make art
by STUFF is by marketing it.
Photograph it and put it on a webiste.
Stencil the word on it.
Show it to your friends.
Use it.
Be there.
Watch
it on television.
Enjoy it. Let it
help you, entertain you, make you think how on earth could i have lived
without this? "... the year (present year minus 10 ) sucked..."
STUFF CAN BE MADE
BY EVERYONE.
No artists can make Stuff, except for damien Hirst.
The developers at
Nokia, Apple and Intel, the directors at Ryan Air, the news editors
and channel directors, and david and Victoria Beckham.
STUFF is capitalist,
competitive and cheap.
STUFF will not become
popularised by its actual work or products, but by its marketing.STUFF
should ideally become part of the system.
STUFFS website should have adverts on google and amazon.
STUFF is easy to understand, and even invisible. You can see stuff and not
notice it. Not even think about it.
STUFF should reproduce
damien Hirst paintings and sell it on websites proclaiming to be the
offical damien hirst website.
The patron saints
of STUFF are damien Hirst, Posh and David Beckham, and The CEO of the
company that made your mobile phone.
Marc Kremers 2003
Version2 revised April 2004
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