Obscene was the Venice Biennale of Rem Koolhass
On one side the fetishism of the industrial products and components (Italian International Pavilion) and on the other the celebration of the political failure of the world… as a naive agitprop able to wrap the architect with politically correct conscientiousness… self-complaisance for this comfortable dualism.
— new-territories.com
We are in the pursuit of the diagrammatic hoax he himself promoted 20 years ago, same arrogance of reductionism to avoid embracing and gathering complexity in a productive way, in an aesthetic way, for a critical production, not for a simulation of a critical behavior… sponsored by Rolex.
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Never was smart enough to follow Roche's writings.
Rem as the Sexual Intellectual. A little old to be Ziggy Stardust leading all the young dudes.
You need to be well read to get all of the writer's inferences but is tourist Venice B the spot for a soapbox? As the piece points out Haacke was fired for his artwork.
what is Tourist Venice B? Biennale? Is the Biennale a good place for a soap box because the event is organized for dumb tourists because typical tourists really bother to go out of their way and dip into architecture land when they could just eat gelato on the rialto? Is Venice Ca Tourist Venice A? nice thing about a soapbox, its easy to carry.
If you don't think your smart enough to follow Roche's writings, here is a summary:
- The free market is bad. No reasons given.
- Instead of giving reasons, use provocative words, e.g., obscenity, fetishism, naive agitprop, diagrammatic hoax, arrogance, self-indulgence, criminal innocence (and that's just the first three sentences).
- Instead of offering a counter argument, fill your "critique" with references to so many philosophers and theorists (preferably Marxists) that only an academic can claim to have read them all.
- Conclude by calling everyone "dummies."
I hope this helps.
I think it would have been good form of Roche to start out by checking how Rem Koolhaas' name is spelled before writing a critique. I cannot help but think that you have to engage with your subject matter deeply in order to make criticism really stick. It's very basic and simple advice.
Leave to Roche to make Koolhaas seem unpretentious.
+1 to orangeeli.
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