JARGON - February 2012

This was an experimental piece that took place at Sarai's City as Studio II exhibition in February 2012.  It looked at the idea of heavy language that seems to be overused in the art world by art writers, including myself.

I wrote the following words on 200 name-tags and everyone that walked into the exhibition opening was labelled with one - a type of visual reminder of our prized lexicon.  I also read out the list of words as part of a performance art series conducted by Vivek Narayanan.

JARGON:

Advocacy

Agency

Amorphous

Appropriated

Authenticity

Autonomy

Collaborative

Construct

Contemporaneity

Context

Cultural practitioner

Deconstructed

Decontextualized

Dialectic

Didactic

Emerging

Established

Ethereal

Experimental

Framework

Hybridity

Iconographic

Installation

Intentionality

Interdisciplinary

Intervention

Juxtaposition

Liminal

Literal

Loaded

Narrative

Negotiation

New-media

Nostalgia

Paradoxical

Performative

Periphery is the new centre

Phenomena

Point of departure

Politics

Post- (studio, industrial, colonial, visual)

Process not product

Representative

Rhetoric

Site-specific

Sub-text

Symbolic

Temporal

Time-based

Transient

Transnational

Urban Fabric

Uncertainty

Zeitgeist, zeitgeist