Reading Response: Ackbar Abbas

I pretty much appreciate the conception of ‘aesthetics of boredom’ mentioned in this article. I always feel empty and anxious when the feeling called ‘boredom’ hits me, and then I will drag something to do so that I can feel ‘filled.’ But Warhol is an artist who spends time investigating ‘boring’ things. I feel comforted knowing this.

In the world, some people are bearing no effort to make their lives efficient, while some others are spending 1 second as 1 second and 1 minute as 1 minute, peacefully sitting with ‘time’ side by side. I guess that’s how the world keeps in balance.

Regarding the comments on Warhol’s works focusing on daily, I don’t think those analyses are necessary. They are ‘films’ shot in the sixties, and the technology was not that developed as today, which indicates that the content and techniques will not be sophisticated. I think Warhol paid attention to daily life was partly because he was restricted and the level of technology, to some extent, forbade him from achieving other ideas instead of daily life.

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  1. Putri Santoso says:

    Andy Warhol’s “Empire” was produced as a critique toward the film showing time, and in a way “… anticipated recent trends in art installation, foreseeing even the shape that the projection of moving images has taken today” (p.93). His film, which was produced in 1964, is one of the manifestations of the post-war late modernism that was questioning and rethinking the notion of time a lot. Bruno refers to this as “… a radical refashioning of a politics of time. … A politics of time means giving space to time” (p,94). It would be constructive to take these into account while reflecting upon Bruno’s piece, especially considering her attempt to point out how films “architect” the time-out.

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