- Pastiche= work of art that imitates the work of previous art
- Parody= work or performance that imitates the art with intentions to mock and ridicule it can come in the form of music videos movies , mockumentary, arcitecture
- Bricolage=
- Intertextuality=another useful term to use, as it suggests signs only have meaning in reference to other signs and that meaning is therefore a complex process of decoding/encoding with individuals both taking and creating meaning in the process of reading texts.
- Referential=
- Surface and style over substance and content=
- Metanarrative=
- Hyperreality= the inability of consciousness to distinguish reality from a simulation of reality,
- Simulation (sometimes termed by Baudrillard as ‘Simulacrum’) =
- Consumerist Society=a society in which people often buy new goods, especially goods that they do not need, and in which a high value is placed on owning many things.
- Fragmentary Identities= an multidisciplinary collaboration, involving visual communication, performative arts and fashion.
- Alienation=
- Implosion=
- cultural appropriation=
- Reflexivity
postmodernism:
we see lord reef in it but it isnt him
it is a parody
- lord reef massive eyebrows making fun of the look
- talking in a child playroom
| words | relation to extezansial |
| pastiche | |
| parody | |
| Bricolage | |
| Intertextuality | |
| Referential | |
| Surface and style over substance and content | |
| Metanarrative | |
| Hyperreality | |
| Simulation | the dog in the game is not the dog we thought it was |
| Consumerist Society | |
| Fragmentary Identities | |
| Alienation | |
| Implosion | them thinking about the game at the end where they are supposedly out of the game |
| cultural appropriation | |
| Reflexivity |
Postmodernism can therefore be understood (more than other creative movements) as deliberate, intended, self-conscious play, signs about signs, notes to notes? Often, this may be frivolous, trite, casual, surface, throw-away. It may even be ironic, joking, or literally, ‘just playing’. However, it is always a deliberate copy of older art/things. Therefore, the old has been re-worked into something new, which clearly entails a recognition to what it was and where it came from.
If we agree that The Love Box in your Living Room it is a REITERATION of the documentary work by Adam Curtis then it works as both a parody and a pastiche. In this sense, postmodernism works in terms of gestures, signs, re-imagining of work that is already recognised. However, the key question is whether this is just play? Or whether it is indicative of something else? Some more seismic and significant shifts in society?
theorists this could link to: David gauntlet
theory of identity
For many this is reflective of the new global economy (globalisation), which has created a high polarized class division between the rich / the really super rich and the poor / underclass (ie the really, really poor) made possible through the rapid increase of new forms of technological developments.
FRAGMENTED COMMUNITIES, fractured and alienated individuals struggling to survive and keep alive. Fragmented identity
momento is very postmodern as it