Danielle Freakley will be performing at the Emerging Writers' Festival this weekend. This article (quoted in full from http://www.theprogram.net.au) explains the scope of this postmodern extravaganza...
 The Quote Generator by Danielle Freakley [Image courtesy of teh artist & Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces] |  | |
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The Quote Generator :: Danielle Freakley
VIC | On Until 21.10.2007
Could you spend a year and a half assimilating stolen quotes into each and every social conversation you have?
That's exactly how Melbourne based artist Danielle Freakley intends to spend the foreseeable future. On October 23rd Danielle launched her three-year, three-phased performance project: Quote Generator. Armed with the goal of challenging myths of authorship, originality and ownership over language, Danielle will spend the next year and a half in the thick of phase one.
Phase One of the Quote Generator project will involve the artist speaking strictly in referenced quotation in everyday life. Whether she be buying groceries, going to the movies, eating at a restaurant with friends, or undertaking any of the countless activities one engages on a daily basis, Danielle will structure all of her conversations using popular quotations.
Wondering how she'll be able to pull it off? Well, it won't be easy. Danielle will read the quotes aloud in her ordinary, unaffected speaking voice. Then the reference of the quote will be whispered after the quote is spoken. The quotes used must respond to a specific context and she will be unaided apart from a contraption known as the quote harness. Essentially the quote harness is a jacket that contains foldout pockets with printed booklets of quotes, systematised in order of conversation.
You can keep track of Danielle's progress at: www.gertrude.org.au
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SHAMELESS PLUG WARNING.
by chance, if any of you need a good form of procrastination, come along to the Emerging Writer's fest Press Fair tomorrow at the Fed 2 atrium, 12-5. There'll be lots of zines for sale, and I'll be dressed up as a lace wedding cake, writing bad-in-a-good-way-love-poetry-on-demand.
More examples of living breathing postmodernists. This time with a touch of the political?
http://www.banksy.co.uk/outdoors/horizontal_1.htm
Is banksy po-mo? if he is following on from the Situationist International movement which was developed long ago...
then again i guess his actual street art doesnt make him any money while a coffee table book (reproduction) of his art makes money which is kinda po-mo?
thing is that now his street art IS making him money after he started branching into commissions for councils and bands and such.
though I guess he's also pomo if you look at his stuff in terms of pastiche and parody and the way he uses and plays with these terms.
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