Santa Claus i ett metamodernt konstperspektiv

Santa Claus i ett metamodernt konstperspektiv

Art Review Panel (3400)
Evening Of Beauty
Moving Sculpture
Useless Machines
Red Mobile
TV Bra For Living Sculpture
Concept Machines
The Love Robot
The Hybrid Cyborg
The Shapeshifting Alien



The Robot Art Review Panel

Coming into 3400 the art world is governed by a set of robots who acts as a review panel - getting your art approved is a complicated process as these robots has a hidden agenda of taking over the world starting with the art world. Thus - this robotic review panel - usually only accepts art pieces created by other robots.


Invention of the Flux-Time Machine

This could have left Santa Claus untouched if it wasn't for the fact that he uses art pieces as Christmas gifts. Thue; Santa Claus soon sorted abide with the invention of the Flux-Time Machine. With that invention he could travel time by recreating former artworks.


Moveable Art Pieces

Santa Claus used the concept of recreating former artworks to make copies of the art review panel by addressing specific moveable art pieces (moveable sculptures).

First; he recreated (living picture) Olga Desmond 's 'Evening Of Beauty' (1908) - which consisted of Olga posing in the manner of a variety of classical sculptures.

Second; he recreated Man Ray's 'Moving Sculpture' (1920) - which consisted of newly washed white sheets on a clothesline.

Third; he recreated Bruno Munari's 'Useless Machines' (sculpture) (1933).

Fourth; he recreated Alexander Calder's 'Red Mobile' (1956) (kinetic sculpture).

Fifth; he recreated Charlotte Moorman's 'TV Bra For Living Sculpture' (1969) (performance).

Sixth; he recreated Niclas Citron's 'Concept Machines' (2013) - which consisted of a machine-like structure with no mechanics but driven by belief (in art).

Seventh; he recreated David Freeland's 'The Love Robot' (2203) - which consisted of mechanic-sketches on top of the barechested artist while [he] goes around twisting gags (in a twisted gag) (searching for love).

Eight; he recreated William Chesterfield's 'The Hybrid Cyborg' (2659) - which consisted of a hybrid between man and cyborg thus having his first entity as man and his next entity parted between man and machine.

Ninth; he recreated Gerhard Morecambe's 'The Shapeshifting Alien' (3240) - which consisted of a real alive alien who could (shape)shift into a variety of human forms.


New Workings (of the Review Panel)

This new panel then substituted the old one and so it went alot more easy for Santa Claus to get his art collection passing by as art and therefor be eligible as Christmas gifts.

Santa Claus was once again victorious.

And so Christmas (and the artworld) was once again saved.

// Henrik Aronsson (Other Persona)