Reading Room: A Journal of Art and Culture
Issue 2 (2008)
TRANSCENDENTAL POP
Issue 2 of Reading Room explores a paradox within contemporary art and culture's absorption of Pop. While artists continue to utilise Pop's method, 'Transcendental Pop' identifies a current shift in the infamous fascination with the everyday. Arguably, it is Warhol's defence of surface, flatness and blankness, that has been absorbed and referenced by subsequent generations of artists. These characteristic qualities have become embedded in art's relationship to the everyday - the 'real'. In part, this narrow absorption of Pop's surface has allowed a paradox to occur when artists reinvest surface with 'depth', the unknown and unquantifiable. We invite an exploration of this apparent contradiction, something which has the potential to shift the art / life nexus as we know it.
CONTENTS
| .04 | Foreword Catherine Hammond |
| .05 | Introduction Natasha Conland |
| .08 | Eric Baudelaire's
Sugar Water, the Deleuzean Event, and the Dispersion of Spectatorial Labour Tan Lin |
| .28 | Andy Warhol and the
"Religious" Dimension of Contemporary Art Rex Butler |
| .46 | The Enigmatic
Playground: Zidane and Deep Play Natasha Conland |
| .64 | The Surface No Longer Holds: Affect, Powerlessness and Obscene
Fluctuations of Meaning in New Occult Art Lars Bang Larsen |
| .81 | Darren Sylvester: In Step with the Real World Daniel Palmer |
| .88 | Slow Dance: Douglas
Gordon's 24 Hour Psycho Morgan Thomas |
| .106 | Break on Through to
This Side: David Hatcher's Dialectics David Craig |
| .138 | The Burdens of
Imaging: Kamrooz Aram's Painted Elsewhere Aram Moshayedi |
ARCHIVE
| .152 | My Only Child: Picture of Warhol Gavin Hipkins |
| .170 | Archives Become Him:
The Giovanni Intra Archive Robert Leonard |
| .186 | Graphic Works by
Edward Ruscha at Auckland City Art Gallery Ron Brownson |
| .196 | Staff Research, Presentations and Publications: 2007 |
| .198 | Contributors |
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