- Does physical or psychological continuity matter? Let's think about teletransportation...
- Perhaps our identity is all in the way we're arranged:
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PHL 101-01
Camden County College
Fall 2011
but what if you with those same pieces take them out again and rebuild the same house? did the house go into the box then? well, i guess not. yet, of course, still not completely happy with that answer.
ReplyDeleteGreat questions! Here's a fun version of these types of issues in the artworld: Marcel Duchamp's L.H.O.O.Q. is just a mustache drawn over a postcard of the Mona Lisa. Though I don't think anyone's done it, several have suggested a new artwork titled "Erased Duchamp" that is physically identical to Da Vinci's Mona Lisa. (This plays off Erased De Kooning.) What's the difference between the Mona Lisa and Erased Duchamp?
ReplyDeletei actually remember seeing something a lot like this on the colbert report a little bit ago... pretty cool
ReplyDeletehttp://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/367854/december-08-2010/steve-martin-pt--2
robert rauschenberg said that he was trying to take drawing "into the all-whites...." i wonder why he was trying to do that. all white is white. maybe the method of achieving that white is art? ...according to him, perhaps... he said (in this youtube video) that the drawing needed to be important.. it needed to BEGIN as art... thinking about it more, i begin to see some meaning in it. it invokes a sense destruction in me, though. I don't think rauschenberg feels any sort destruction in his work... anyway.