TateShots NYC: Cory Arcangel

Artist Cory Arcangel showing TateShots around his exhibition at Team Gallery. Part of our New York special issue. http://www.tate.org.uk/tateshots/issue17802/default.htm

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[NidEnell]

Actually his bullshit is the art. Where as some artists make bullshit and pass it for art he kinda just laughs and says it is bull shit, which then makes it an inside to every one. So really he is not so bull shit. I like some of the stuff, some of it is meh, but I mean he produces a ton of work you cant really fault the guy.

[MrPixies]

he doesn't come off as an ass to me.....silly work made me laugh, what's naughty about that?

"How much longer will bull-chit be "art" ?"

as long as you are not the last man on earth, forever......enjoy!

[deejayhart]

He is definitely an artworld guy, else how did he get shows at Whitney, Barbican and Lisson? The media interventions are fantastically boring, his Photoshop gradient stuff idiotically dumb. An endearing guy, but this stuff is moronic.

[peachesnoir]

i just don't entirely understand why art can't justify itself? its up the artist how much he reveals and as said, up the viewer to decide how they percieve it. personally, i like the mystery attached to the works!

and i believe bullshit is part of being an artist haha im a fine art student and blagging seems part of the course, even the lectureres do it.

all in all, i love cory arcangel :) x

[Estragon17]

@almanacofsleep

Well, thats only redundant if you consider forming grunts and ululations into actual words and sentences.

[almanacofsleep]

@Estragon17 maybe he doesn't want to say anything with art? It seems redundant to make art say something when its easier to just speak it. Also its completely authoritative for him to dictate how we should interpret his work.

[fakeheadphones]

@Estragon17 That's art though, some is good, most is bad. I've yet to be 'moved' by anything that the Tate has exhiited.... hope springs eternal!

[kamil0000kamil]

true master

[SABRENOSE]

What this is is just reflecting on technology and how little people know about communications. Everyone plays Mario and uses email and watches movies, but mostly how media is made is unkown to most people. This is just my interpretation...just becasue this is entertaining doesn't make it not art. And although it's all commercial property Cory is reclaiming media as art by stripping it of its consumer appeal and leaving behind raw analog and digital spirit.

Just my interpretation though.

[Estragon17]

@SABRENOSE

Yes, but what does any of it actually say? Does it actually have any kind of, for lack of a better word, message, or is it just sort of flailing around with how he can look like he is saying something without saying anything too specific.