Jan 23, 2016
The refusal to rest content, the willingness to risk excess on behalf of one’s obsessions, is what distinguishes artists from entertainers, and what makes some artists adventurers on behalf of us all.
John Updike, about J. D. Salinger
*research for relating obsession to contemporary art practice, exploring it as a catalytic instead of a paralytic force — defining it as a tempered, focused and evolving monomania that I am referring to as obession (a version of the term that captures intensity without pathology,and is not watered down to the casual contemporary use of the word where it functions like a temporary infatuation) Â
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