What is appropriation? That is what we try to discover from this text, edited by David Evans and published by the MIT Press. A collection of interviews and essays about the subject, the book covers the topic art historically, pointing out the various forms in which appropriation was used to make critical art.
Simply put, appropriation is the act of borrowing material (images, text, sound, etc.), usually without permission, for the purpose of creating something different than the original source material. We study appropriation as part of our Analogy, the method in which we tell our Tale. In relation to Virno's innovative action, appropriation can be an innovative act when it works towards recontextualizing or highlighting a problem in order to generate the Unthought.
Fountain - Marcel Duchamp
24 Hour Psycho - Douglas Gordon
Duchamp questioned the art object with Fountain (the readymade)... Douglas Gordon made us look closer at cinema with 24 Hour Psycho (a work from the postproduction section of the book).
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