John Menick

Today, Chris Moukarbel responded to a previous post concerning Paramount’s lawsuit against him.

As he points out, the press only seems to be able to understand his work in the context of commercial filmmaking, and, like Paramount, isn’t interested in knowing that Moukarbel is working in a tradition of contemporary art in which appropriation is a form of criticism. (In case you’re the one person reading a contemporary art blog who doesn’t know what I’m talking about, try looking into Guy Debord, Bruce Conner, Pierre Huyghe, Douglas Gordon, et al.)

Am I the only person who finds this lawsuit wildly arbitrary? (Other than Chris, of course.)

(Related: Also see this previous post on Godard’s screening at the MoMA.)