In addition to what lies below.
To kind of go with the entry below I offer the following (but only because I didn't want to put it at the end of the following entry).
One of the greates things of the presentation was this one slide of one of Cracco's earlier pieces of work. It involved these x-rays of torsos and pelvises. The most interesting part was the way in which in one of them, his work was "signed" not by himself, but by the tag on the x-ray. A little Derrida shows us that the author/painter/poet etc. signs his/her work as a guarantor of presence. It is the stand in, the authorization, of the artist's presence vis-a-vis the work. A notion of responsibility creeps in as well. I'm playing around with the significance of what his name on that piece, while not being signed, while not even be created by him (for it was from the x-ray), bears on this notion of the artist's/creator's presence in relation to the work.
One of the greates things of the presentation was this one slide of one of Cracco's earlier pieces of work. It involved these x-rays of torsos and pelvises. The most interesting part was the way in which in one of them, his work was "signed" not by himself, but by the tag on the x-ray. A little Derrida shows us that the author/painter/poet etc. signs his/her work as a guarantor of presence. It is the stand in, the authorization, of the artist's presence vis-a-vis the work. A notion of responsibility creeps in as well. I'm playing around with the significance of what his name on that piece, while not being signed, while not even be created by him (for it was from the x-ray), bears on this notion of the artist's/creator's presence in relation to the work.