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29 December

Absolut Philadelphia
1991.12.29

Re: (ninth of ) Top 10
1999.12.29 11:45

Re: Foul Perfection
2002.12.29 16:31

Sontag died on Dienstag
2004.12.29 11:18
Re: Does anybody even really care anymore?
2004.12.29 14:07
Susan Sontag
2004.12.29 15:00
2004.12.29 17:10
2004.12.29 18:54

Re: Foul Perfection
2002.12.29 16:31

Mike Kelley('s work) is not the point. The fact that Diederichsen finds (albeit inadvertently) in Kelley a reiteration of the role of the spoil-sport vis-à-vis the magic circle of play adds credence to the role of the spoil-sport in that the spoil-sport's work and the magic circles' work together form a more true rendition of actual history. The work of the magic circle alone does not provide a full and/or true view of history. Every faithful to its (own) game, the magic circle only delivers the magic circles' view of history, and the spoil-sports who do not play by the magic circles' rules deliver the rest of the view. Hence, the contradictory material, i.e., art of the spoil-sport that history pretends didn't happen, is the point.

It seems safe to label Kelley as an artist that began more as a spoil-sport, but I wouldn't label him as a spoil-sport that "sometimes happens...[to]...make a new community with rules of its own."

Granted, I'll be more attentive to Kelley's work, particularly with regard to its spoil-sport aspects or not, but I'm much more interested in spoil-sport artists truly outside the magic circle who indeed do make a new community.

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