Went to a lecture given by the South African artist William Kentridge at Cooper Union's Great Hall last night, took some notes. Here are a few Kentridge gems:
-Kentridge's own term for his rudimentary stop-motion animation technique is "Stone Age Filmmaking."
-Kentridge is attempting to make work that reminds us "what it is we do when we see."
-"An artist talking about philosophy is like a drunk going on and on about a theory."
-The concept of mistranslation: things that get lost lost as images are transferred and shared...it's about the gaps, the things that go wrong...our memory.
-Goal: to make an image that is elusive of rational explanation.
-"Like connoisseurship, both forensics and psychoanalysis rely on the details as the key to solve problems."
-"Masks actually do not work as expected: instead of focusing on the mask, we focus on the movements of the body around the mask."
-"Holding onto possibilities even if they can't or won't seem to be is what gives us hope in the world."
-"It's not fair for artists to blame bad work on theory that came first."
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