The piece was completed last Friday and it consists of a single, diminutive swimming pool located somewhere in the southern Mojave Desert between Joshua Tree and Apple Valley. The public is allowed to use the pool, but in order to do so visitors need the key that unlocks it (it is kept covered) as well as the GPS coordinates. Only once you have the key, which is kept at the MAK Center, are you given the coordinates. — latimes.com
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so, to underline waste, we create more waste (and a waste of a waste - after all, it is a waste of a pool if very few people will be using it) and thus we have a critical waste. so that supposedly makes it an ethical waste...since it is a waste that comes with a message not to waste. this is an example where ethics of sustainaibility, like human rights and other such edicts, have been divorced from their raison d'être, rendered a powerful rhetoric subject to rhetorical ploys and manipulations, something to be toyed around rather than respected on its own grounds.
really, no one really will stop buiilding pools because of this project, no one will derive any valuable lesson from it, it is simply another product of installation art, an art driven by the consumption of novel experiences and ideas.
So, cummon mr artist, your work is an much an unwitting product of consumption as any other - in fact, your work is a hypocritical product that wittingly presents itself as critical of consumption and yet is part of that school of art, installation art, that is inherently and subserviently tied to the flourishing of capitalism, to individualistic expressionism that dissipate into triviality as soon as one scratches their surface. A culture of trivial detachment from the actual structures that affect your lives. an art that no longer is tethered to the cost and time demands of a craft, a streamlined art, a packaged experience, a consumable idea.
What did jla-x once propose here, in response to his or her frustration at how the country is run by a bunch of self-interested mega biollionaires who have no interest in the majority....oh yes, that she or he will be spending a lot of money on a black market ticket to attend some stupid ass pseudo-rebellious community party somewhere in the desert as a response to how detached his or her desires are from his or her life and those who dictate it. this is exactly the same, an unwitting participation in a system of consumption under the pretense of criticality.
nice pool!
buummmmmmmmmpppppppppppppppp!
this is spectacular @'~
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