Remake/Remodel:  Blurring  the  Lines  

Arts  One  Jon  Beasley-­‐Murray  September,  2013  

Vancouver  Public  Library  

•  Blurred  Lines  •  Lexicon  •  Life  •  History  •  Philosophy  •  Literature  

BLURRED  LINES  

Criss-­‐crossed  Lines  

•  Law  Revue  Girls,  “Defined  Lines”  

•  Robin  Thicke  R.  Pharrell,  “Blurred  Lines”  

•  Robert  Palmer,  “Addicted  to  Love”  

•  Marvin  Gaye,  “Got  to  Give  it  Up”  

•  Patrick  Nagel,  Rat  Pack,  Las  Vegas,  VMA…  

LEXICON  

How  Many  Ways  to  Say  “RepeYYon”?  

•  copying  •  appropriaYon  •  parody  •  pasYche  •  criYque  •  remaking  •  remodelling  •  sampling  •  mimcry  •  response  •  desecraYon  •  reworking  •  adaptaYon  

•  mirroring  •  reversal  •  homage  •  inspiraYon  •  derivaYon  •  renovaYon  •  covering  •  plagiarism  •  theR  •  influence  •  sequel  •  reply  •  (re-­‐)reading  

LIFE  

What  is  Life?  

•  YOLO?  •  Or  is  life  a  series  of  repeYYons…  

•  Heartbeat,  breathing,  generaYon,  cicadianism  

•  Habits,  rouYnes,  rituals  •  Seasons,  birthdays,  anniversaries  

•  The  virtue  of  recycling?  •  Language  

HISTORY    

What  kind  of  a  story  is  history?  

•  Is  Yme  a  line?  •  What  is  an  event?  •  History  as  progress  •  History  as  regress  •  History  as  circles  •  History  as  eddies  

PHILOSOPHY  

What’s  the  Deal  about  IdenYty?  

•  Who  am  I?  •  A  =  A?  •  Difference  and  RepeYYon  

•  Copy  and  Original  •  CitaYon,  IteraYon,  Singularity  

LITERATURE  

What  is  a  Canon?  

•  “Great  Texts”  •  Who  decides?  •  Borges,  “Kaea  and  His  Precursors”  

•  The  present  can  influence  the  past  

•  Past  texts  become  Kaeaesque  

•  Rereading  and  reorganizaYon  

More  Resources  

•  Jorge  Luis  Borges,  Collected  FicYons  •  Fredric  Jameson,  “Postmodernism,  or,  The  Cultural  Logic  of  Late  Capitalism”  

•  Robert  Venturi,  Denise  Scoh  Brown  and  Steven  Izenour,  Learning  from  Las  Vegas  

•  hhp://artsone-­‐digital.arts.ubc.ca