Man Ray Interview
This interview is from the documentary, "Man Ray - Prophet of the Avant Garde". The one minute recording consists only of the artist himself, without any background music or sound, explaining the principles around his work. He says that objects bear no meaning to him and that he disregards the aesthetic quality of an object completely. Man Ray states that he is against craftsmanship but that the world consists of many craftsmen, few of which are dreamers. By that he means few craftsman explore beyond the object or work itself. He then mentions a project in which he found a seemingly uninteresting iron and placed thumb tacks on it in an attempt to make the object useless. However, he then states that nothing is useless and that you can always find a value with some of the most extravagant items.
In terms of narrative, it is clearly personal and meant to be viewed in its entirety. The artist is expressing his opinions and ideas and the recording appears to be nothing more than a piece within a larger, more constructive journal.
Experiments in Disintegrating Language - Charles Verey, Blood Rumba and Morning Was 1971
The artist, and I use that term cautiously, states that Blood Rumba and Morning Was was created while he was a full time art teacher and that the piece reflects the constant pressure of working. Both pieces are poetic in there language as it is unclear what exactly the speaker is saying. There is no background noise to accompany Verey except the sound of Verey rapidly tapping his fingers on a table. Verey's words seem consistent with his tapping but inconsistent in the way he rigidly and sternly speaks them. The overall feeling of the poem is tense and uncomfortable. As a narrative we definitely feel what kind of unsettling pressure the speaker is experiencing now, but do not know what happened at the start or if it will ever end.
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