artsplaining: nine sentences about informationism
Informationist art is art that tells you stuff you didn’t know you wanted to know in a manner you didn’t think was really art.
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Information about Informationism is inevitably Post-Informationist: the movement was designed to be over as soon as anyone had heard of it. (1)
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Some theorists argue it was over as soon as it was thought of - most Informationists were not informed in time and so were already Post-.
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Actually, this being Scotland in the 1990s, the rule about Informationism being over once it was heard of gave us 25 years of uninterrupted work. (2)
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To this day, the key practitioners of Informationism toil away neither knowing that they are Informationists nor that it is already all over.
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Because anyone who’s heard of Informationism has only heard it’s over, they have not really been informed about Informationism at all.
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Thus, as the Founding Informationists found out from the outset, Informationism both persists and is Post-Informationist at the same time.
(1) Nods, nodes, and noodles of ongoing Informationism in the Post-Informationist era are, properly, not known as Informationist Eccentres.
(2) Informationist books are programmed to shed their skins every seventh year, or to find their way back to their publishing house and spawn, depending on whether they have been read or not.
