Understanding appropriation as a creative practice
The phrase “jes’ grew” became a common shorthand way of referring to something whose origins are not easily reduced to human intentions and actions, but more the result of an organic, natural, complex process. Someone who feels the city of Toronto as it exists today evolved more due to diverse events, interests, natural phenomena, accidents, Read More …
A culture jam uses the media of a dominant culture (corporate, entertainment, political) to criticize and subvert the ends of that culture. Culture jams may be audio, video, or still images, and could possibly exist in other modes as well. A culture jam is something more than a parody (of, say, an ad). Its intentions Read More …
A term used by Guy Debord and the French politicized avant-garde group known as the Situationists to describe a creative appropriation that attempts to radically change the intended meaning or direction of the original work. For the Situationists, this means using outmoded media to express new, more progressive values. The Situationists were far left “art Read More …
Performance Abduction [more properly, but awkwardly, recorded performance abduction] is my term for the unprecedented possibility (brought about by the rise of audio and video recording in the 20th century) of using the electronic reproduction (recording) of someone else’s performance as part of your own performance or recording. I feel this is a form of Read More …