DESTROY and REJUVENATE
"The destructive character lives from the feeling not that life is worth living but that suicide is not worth the trouble".
Walter Benjamin, 1931 |
claire fontaine assistant@clairefontaine.ws
www.theimaginaryparty.com
Claire Fontaine is a faction made up of factions, since everyone of us
contains one and many at the same time. In her movements she is
sometimes a fugitive sometimes a refugee, struggling through the
contradictions of her time and her milieu, all the while looking for
the means of escape.
To begin with, she presents herself as a signmaker - of signs
that blur the distinction between inside and outside, slogans and
concepts, artwork and advertisement. She is born and has grown up in
the time of totalitarian democracies, where terms like "power" and
"work"- which had led us in the past to imagine radical transformations
of the society - have been progressively turned against themselves.
Likewise, the process of the detournement functions in her practice as
an indicator of painful evidences known to all. The renunciation of the
quest for "authenticity", that follows from this position, is linked to
the fact that freedom in the creative process is to be found in
collective and not in individual space. The political conditions that
organise our perception of reality show us a reassuring landscape that
hides a battlefield, she moves in this opaque territory putting
together the fragments of a confused archeology, made out of what we
don't understand and we can't imagine.
The wasteland left by the disappearence of the author is Claire
Fontaine's playground and her laboratory of desubjectivisation. Claire
Fontaine is young and playful because destroying rejuvenates her.
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