Janet Kardon 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 - PRINTER VERSION
>> made to sit in has the same kind of quality of concept as the chair that has been cut up and re-fabricated to hang on the wall.
JK: You're making a comparison that I'm not making. I'm not comparing the chair on the wall with the chair on the floor. I'm only comparing this new art object to every other art object that has gone before it, or other art objects that are being made in its own time. And that's your basis for deciding whether a piece is interesting or not.
RB: So you would compare chairs to chairs and chairs hung on the wall to chairs hung on the wall.
JK: I'm comparing objects to objects.
RB: There is a feeling in the craft field that the chair on the wall is going to be perceived as better because it appears to be avant-garde craft, while the chair on the floor appears to be traditional, which is not thought of as important or interesting any longer. I suppose I'm looking for some kind of reassurance from you that the chair on the floor has its way of speaking to us and it's not the same as the chair on the wall's way of speaking to us.
JK: I thought I had just said that. It's not important whether the chair is on the wall or the floor. What is important is how the chair on the wall fits into the continuum of other "chairs on walls" and how the chair on the floor fits in with other "chairs on floors".
RB: So you don't see those things competing with each other; they're like apples and oranges.
JK: Yes, I would say so.
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>> made to sit in has the same kind of quality of concept as the chair that has been cut up and re-fabricated to hang on the wall.
JK: You're making a comparison that I'm not making. I'm not comparing the chair on the wall with the chair on the floor. I'm only comparing this new art object to every other art object that has gone before it, or other art objects that are being made in its own time. And that's your basis for deciding whether a piece is interesting or not.
RB: So you would compare chairs to chairs and chairs hung on the wall to chairs hung on the wall.
JK: I'm comparing objects to objects.
RB: There is a feeling in the craft field that the chair on the wall is going to be perceived as better because it appears to be avant-garde craft, while the chair on the floor appears to be traditional, which is not thought of as important or interesting any longer. I suppose I'm looking for some kind of reassurance from you that the chair on the floor has its way of speaking to us and it's not the same as the chair on the wall's way of speaking to us.
JK: I thought I had just said that. It's not important whether the chair is on the wall or the floor. What is important is how the chair on the wall fits into the continuum of other "chairs on walls" and how the chair on the floor fits in with other "chairs on floors".
RB: So you don't see those things competing with each other; they're like apples and oranges.
JK: Yes, I would say so.
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