Experimental Art Philippe Bronchtein Dance 360

Let me just start off by saying that this was one of the most frustrating articles I've ever had to read. Not only was the first 2 words of every line on every other page blacked out, but the assertively pretentious tone had me questioning everything written, just for the sake of it.

Despite this, there were a handful of points made the were thought provoking and worthwhile. On page 69 the author talks about how extremism can often be confused with experimentation. I think it's a very good distinction to make. Just because something is extreme and provoking does not push it outside the fringes of art. If its history and background are still rooted within the cannon of what is considered art, than it is not experimental.

A different part of her article that I found very hard to stomach was her discussion of "nothing new statement." The author writes, We admit with a shrug that there is nothing new under the sun and devote ourselves to magnifying marginal differences." This statement reduces art to nothing but a product. It ignores the process, the artist him/herself, and the original intention behind a work. The mind behind a work, as well as the pathway it followed is equally as interesting to observe as the work itself. I feel like this is lost in this essay.