Unnecessary Objects

UNNECESSARY OBJECTS . OBJETOS INNECESARIOS
by Mónica Di Francesco
this project navigates trough the weird nature of objects that sit across our closest surroundings. Is a graphical research complemented with some sound..
FEEL FREE TO POST PICTURES OF YOUR UNNECESSARY OR NECESSARY OBJECTS HERE.. feed the project!
(Work in Progress)
...there is a swinging need of making unnecessary things necessary. A tragic fascination, hipnotic and worthless.. somehow we become slave of the shiny little inanimated soul eaters we've created.
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A dialogue on a corner where things have been randomly put:
STAPLE: What is it like to be a human being?
CAP: It's like being a microphone and a sponge.
STAPLE: Under the sea?
CAP: No, inside a fish tank.
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By Mónica Di Francesco (The Cheap Poet)
www.myspace.com/thepeachpoet (ILLUSTRATION)
www.myspace.com/thecheappoet (MUSIC)
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unnecesary objects . objetos innecesarios

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The Art and Science of the Object (article published by Wilfried Hou Je Bek @ CRYSTALPUNK . Observed: 18.May.2007)
"The following list is compiled from 'Surealist Art' by S. Alexandrian, Thames and Hudson, 1970. This book also contains examples for each item, so I would advise you to get a copy, if only because Surrealism is part of your Crystalpunk education anyway.
Item:
The Found Object (objet Trouvé).
Description:
The found object is one which when seen among a large number of other objects possesses an attraction – the art of jamais vu, the ‘never before seen’. There is an element of passion in the impulse to acquire it or to stop in front of it. Surrealist commentaries showed that the found object was capable of providing a surprise solution to a problem which one had been trying in vain to solve. Well known location of deposit: The Flea Market.
Item:
The Natural Object
Description: This may be a root, seashell or a stone. The interpretation of what one finds is to satisfy and develop the poetic sense, which needs to be educated in man. In La Langue des Pierres, Breton stated the method of the cult: ‘Stones – particular hard stones – go on talking to those who wish to hear them. The speak to each listener according to his capabilities; through what each listener knows, they instruct him in what he aspires to know.’ The discovery of a bed of stones on a drizzly day in the country gave Breton ‘the perfect illusion of treading the ground of the Earthly Paradise’. The divinatory nature of stones, and the ‘second state’ they induce in the connoisseur, are found only when the stones have been discovered as the result of a special expedition. Well known location of deposit: The banks of the Seine.
Item:
The Interpreted Found Object
Description:
This is most frequently an ornament or a utensil which has been converted by sleight of hand into a bizarre object.
Item:
The Interpreted Natural Object
Description: A poetic camouflage either entirely conceals the characteristics of the root or the stone on which it is based, or on the other hand faithfully follows its suggestion.
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The Readmade
Description:
This term can only be applied to an industrially mass-produced object whose function is altered, and which is dragged from its context of automatic reproduction in the most ingenious way possible. Marcel Duchamp, who invented the genre, also designed the ‘mythological readymade’.
Item:
The Assemblage
Description:
The Assemblage is made up of natural objects or found objects arranged to form a sculpture.
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The Incorporated Object
Description:
This is an object associated with a painting or a sculpture in such a way that it cannot be removed without the depriving the work of its raison d’etre.
Item:
The Phantom Object
Description:
The Phantom object made be might but which is instead merely suggested by a verbal or graphic suggestion.
Item:
The Dream Object
Description:
The Dream Object is a humble, familiar object, which by some caprice of desire is a given a sumptuous appearance. By extension this term can also be applied to any object in which a fantastic Mise en Scène is used.
Item:
The Box
Description:
The Box is an object that comprises the arrangement of various elements brought together in a box.
Item:
The Poem-Object
Description:
The Poem-Object is a kind of relief which incorporates objects in the words of a poetic declaration so as to form a homogeneous whole.
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The Mobile and Mute Object
Description:
The Mobile and Mute object is an irritating, disconcerting object, one element of which moves although the necessity for the movement is not clearly perceptible.
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The Symbolically Functioning Object
Description:
The Symbolically Functioning object is an object produced by an ‘objective perversion’, which expresses a repressed desire or allows a compensatory satisfaction of the libido. The ‘symbolic function’ took the form of putting in a glass of milk a sugar lump on which a show had been painted.
Item:
The Objectively Offered Object
Description:
The Objectively Offered object denotes an object made while thinking of the person to whom it was intended. In this way the object can be used as a vehicle for sentimental or intellectual exchanges, and become a qualitative description which can only be interpreted like a rebus.
Item:
The Being Object
Description:
The Being Object is a person who has been given the various characteristics of a Symbolically Functioning object to produce in the spectator ‘the mysterious vertigo of strange bodies’. For instance (as done by Dali) by masks."
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