Theodore Adorno - Objects in the museums are dying - left behind, left to die
-> There is a transformation once something is put in the gallery, it goes from 'object' to 'Artifact'
Marti Heidigger - Collectors withdraw items from their own world.
Hans Georg Godamer - "[The museum] detaches all art from its connection with life and the particular condition of our approach to it."
Merleau Ponty - "Sunday strollers or Monday 'intellectuals'."
The idea is, apparently, to make the argument extreme - to take the bullet of 'militantism' and challenge the system/belief/the reader. I find the effectiveness of this strategy questionable - it runs the risk of pushing away the people who will always disagree and possibly the more moderate sort. Although it does open up the scope for debate regardless.
(See Mark Dion, Christian Boltanski(?))
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