March 7, 2010

Co-Mix

The recreations of ancient works of art in the medium of comics as defined by James Danky as Comix, seemed to be a product of the drug induced late Sixties era. Where sex, drugs, and alcohol seemed to be the inspirations for these old artists it seems to show in the horror and sexual representations that the Comix portray.
Danky focused a lot of his presentation on female sexuality which also seemed to be key in art history. Sometimes things never change but what does seems to be the amount of criticism and tolerance directed at what never changes therefore allowing it to become either offensive, degraded, more expressive, or more interesting.

Forbidden things always seem to be more addictive to look at than what is allowed by the mainstream media. Porn, monsters, political criticism, hallucinations, drugs, etc.

The co-mixture that Comix in Danky's world provides is a the mixture between then art and "now/then" art and then the tolerable and intolerable media images that have been criticized before but now that they can be represented in this art form are more tolerated..?

What other mediums can we "indirectly" represent what is forbidden in mainstream media? And then once its represented that way is it still forbidden?

Evolution of this medium has seemed to be exclusive to certain subcultures who tend to keep up with the storyline and imagery depicted. It is which subcultures impact the Comix that is interesting and seems to be a way to predict where the Comix are going and what they will continue to raise up from the underground.

2 comments:

  1. Some displays of gratuitous nudity, violence, and drug use is still controversial when thought of as close to us. Responding to the illusion that the "holy trinity" of sex, drugs, and rock n' roll is more tolerated now because it is associated with a past decade of time and a foreign culture of the underground comix, "A science was once founded on the basis of this projection of time onto space: anthropology. To the various regions of the planet there correspond various temporal sequences, so that 'over there' is spontaneously transformed into 'back then.'" (Bourriaud, 122-3)

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  2. The Comix were a product of their time and the specific technologies and distributions systems available at the moment. We enjoyed thinking again about the resistance that was part of underground activity in the 20th century. It doesn't feel that way now.

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