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basically the "avant” is like feng shui room rearrangement

one moves things around in the room to present a different appearance and one claimed to be more "beneficial" in ethical and aesthetic terms, yet the room and the furniture themselves all remain the same

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in effect ubu web is the graveyard of the avant garde

not an example of its functioning but a vast collection of tombstones like the final scenes
the good the bad and the ugly

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in other words--could Columbine or 9/11 be prevented if one simply rounded up everyone whose thoughts employed images and words, music and videos etc which depict ideas, actions, aesthetics "outside the mainstream"

photo: Kenneth Goldsmith, artist with Cheryl Donegan, artist and member of the judging panel @ The First Irish American Arts Awards