..the essential
nature of lists, poets who list things in their works and painters who
accumulate things in their paintings. ...
Umberto Eco: The list is the origin of culture. Its part
of the history of art and literature. What does culture want? To make
infinity comprehensible. It also wants to create order -- not always,
but often. And how, as a human being, does one face infinity? How does
one attempt to grasp the incomprehensible? Through lists, through catalogs,
through collections in museums and through encyclopedias and dictionaries.
There is an allure to enumerating how many women Don Giovanni slept
with: It was 2,063, at least according to Mozarts librettist,
Lorenzo da Ponte. We also have completely practical lists -- the shopping
list, the will, the menu -- that are also cultural achievements in their
own right...
Interview: Der Spiegel
To accomplish
Ecos infinity of lists
Send me your own list, accumulation, enumeration,
collection,
series, account or frame, etc.
in text and image
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Size and technique: free
Deadline to be received: December 31, 2010
Online gallery on the Internet:
http://www.colori.nl/mii/lists
http://listsproject.blogspot.com/
Exposition in 2011 in QS Gallery
Documentation to all participants
Info: mii@colori.nlr
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Send your contribution to:
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ColoriMii
The Museum of Instant Images
Beckershagen 15 - Chaam - 4861 SE
Pays Bas - The Netherlands - NL
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e-mail: mii@colori.nl
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