Almost late for Appropriation

Yesterday, of course I was running late for Sara Krajewski's "Image Transfer: Pictures in a Remix Culture" lecture at the Newcomb Gallery. Sara is Director of INOVA at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee who brought this travelling group exhibition to Tulane.

She spoke about how meaning is no longer fixed to an image, especially when re-appropriation has become so common and she gave examples of work from Lisa Oppenheim, Erika Vogt (this being my favorite piece) and Sieben Versteeg.

What I found really interesting is how an image can be "detached from a context" making the "authenticity of it dislodged", a common practice in some of my work and the work of other artists, creating "portability of meanings" providing the possibility of "multiplicity in location and simultaneity in time".

She also mentioned some artists that have historically set the pace on these matters, Robert Heinecken being one of them back in the seventies.

Finally, she showed how appropriation can provoke mixed "transcultural global signifiers" just as Dino Ignacio's "Bert is Evil" project that later on became such a huge issue in 2001.