People asking what my installation is about. This just about covers it. from...with thanks... Clothing and Textile Reasearch Journal – From Kitsch to Chic by Marcia A. Morgado ..the transformation and reconstitution of the souvenir commodity as an indigenous ethnic art form and a scarce relic of Hawaiis romanticized past... Michael Thompsons Rubbish Theory (1979) ...a critical aspect of Western culture is the pre-disposition to see objects in terms of two overt categories: the transient and the durable. Objects identified as transient have finite life spans and lose value over time, whereas those identified as durable have infinite lives and over time increae in value....category assignments are arbitrary, but once assigned a category membership determines relative value. Fashion apparel-by defenition-is assigned to the transient category; paintings commonly are designated durables....how is it that transient objects.. ( e.g. Hawaiian shirts and vinyl records ) ..sometimes become durables. Thompson proposes that between the overt categories lies a covert category, which he calls rubbish. Objects assigned to the rubbish category are largely invisible, have no value and, ideally, no life span. Fashion for example, no longer worn and relegated to the back of the wardrobe has fallen into the covert rubbish category. But rubbish can be rescued and transformed. Thompson says What I believe happens is a transient object gradually declining in value and in expected life span may slide across into rubbish. Here it exists in a timeless and valueless limbo where it has a chance to be re-discovered and be successfully transformed to a durable. Such transferes are radical: objects gradually slide from transcience to rubbish, but the transformation from rubbish to durable involves an all-or-nothing leap across two boundaries, that separating the worthless from the valuable and that between the covert and the overt. Things drift into obscurity but they leap into prominence. The delightful consequence of this hypothesis is that in order to study the social control of value we must study rubbish. The rubbish-to-durable transformation is accompanied by the development of highly specialized knowledge derived from the discovery of subtle variations and complex details that went unnoticed in the objects transient stage. The discoveries initiate renewed interest in the object and its market value begins to climb. As prices soar beyond the reach of ordinary people, the object becomes available only in high priced collectors markets. Furthermore, as market values rise, the aesthetic value of the object undergoes a reassessment as well, and it becomes increasingly apparent that the objects intrinsic beauty has been overlooked. Ultimately the object is re -assigned as a durable and becomes recognized as a timeless classic. Web version - ctr.sagepub/content/21/2/75 Exotica / Ambience and Pacificism an interview with Mike Cooper by Professor Phil Hayward. islandresearchph/uploads/6/4/0/0/6400760/exotica_ambience_pacificism.pdf Francesco Adinolfi – Mondo Exotica goodreads/book/show/2746312-mondo-exotica
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