This Is My Art And It Is Dangerous

[rinue]

It occurred to me yesterday that possibly the worst thing Ciro has ever done to the world is teach me the word détournement. I now claim that all kinds of things that are obviously not détournement are détournement, which since they are not détournement is me détourning them (needless to say in a way that would not necessarily be recognized by other practitioners of détournement). Essentially, I do a lot of found art projects wherein I claim somebody else's behavior was artistic that wasn't, and give it a meaning that is almost entirely unrelated to its actual meaning - I don't mean reversing and satirizing it, I mean not related, I mean entirely transformed in a way that doesn't even slightly comment on the person whose actions I've appropriated. I can't exactly work out how it's unethical but it's clearly enough a transgression that it makes me uncomfortable, which is frankly a large part of how I can tell I'm doing it as art and not humor.

I will write a real entry someday soon I really will.