Comments on: Episode 190: Steve Litsios

By: Steve Litsios

Steve Litsios — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 19:14:08 +0000

Thanks Jack!

By: Richard

Richard — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 17:28:10 +0000

Glad to be of service!

By: Russell Maycumber

Russell Maycumber — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 16:55:46 +0000

Craigslist encounter Valtrex narrative over the never been kissed version of “The Misserables”…speechless once again. I couldn’t even mak it past the intro with out commenting. Thank you again for the laughter and the sunshine.

By: Jack

Jack — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 07:32:59 +0000

As has been written about Litsios, “He creates poetic forms in space and thereby rattles our perception with a form of subtle humor.”

By: Mark Staff Brandl

Mark Staff Brandl — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 13:04:39 +0000

Sorry Steve. Richard and I were just trading nonsense for fun. Together, Riuchard, we could write a wonderfully useless catalog essay. We should really stick to Litsios’s art, which I think is great.

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dental lab handpiece — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 00:18:19 +0000

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By: Steve Litsios

Steve Litsios — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 19:02:51 +0000

Is the underlying metaphor the “horribly off-track intro” or am I missing something here?

By: Richard Holland

Richard Holland — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 14:38:52 +0000

I think your comment counterpoints the surrealism of the underlying metaphor.

By: Mark Staff Brandl

Mark Staff Brandl — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 09:08:46 +0000

OK — I plead guilty to (over-)loving nuanced vocabulary.

I’ll change it to Consensus-approved hip-art-student, middlebrow artspeak:

The artist’s work, like, interrogates the fluid communicational post-neo-conceptual structures and systems of a larger, indexed context through not being at all retarded, man, and trangressively references the problematized situation of the, like, totally elitist ability-hang-up, dude, by inverting the situationism of its presentation with kitsch citational applications, I mean, like, Derrida, Lacan, right, and painting is dead, like.

By: Richard Holland

Richard Holland — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 19:25:13 +0000

Alas, it’s true. I think my objection was to the use of puckish and the phrase “flirtation with garishness” in the same sentence.

You AND Mike can go puck yourselves.

By: Mark Staff Brandl

Mark Staff Brandl — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 17:17:04 +0000

Hey, Richie --- puckish is a great adjective --- fits Steve even better than mischievious, playful or whimsical or whatever. I thoroughly enjoy how exact yet associative one can get with vocabulary in English, stuff which often has to be done with grammar in many other languages. At least, those are not jargonistic art school words incorrectly used, as is often true at BaS (e.g.: reference as a verb, "based OFF" instead of "based ON," etc.) I realize you would never say that sentence. You didn't, I did. You read it. So puck you! (And GO Mike Benadetto! Nah nah nah.) I agree with you, though, that the art student diary thing was sad and repugnant, although I wouldn't want to describe my own life at that age, which wasn't much better ...