ON BRICOLAGE

ASSEMBLING CULTURE WITH WHATEVER COMES TO HAND
by Anne-Marie Boisvert, translated by Timothy Barnard

...Remix culture is a culture of quoting, and of the remake. But it is also a culture of intervention and reinvention whose goal is entertainment but also communion and liberation. The artist at the controls wittingly yields to chance (in the form of "glitches", among other things), and to the means at hand in his or her creative process - because, while the result matters, it matters less than the process, the performance, and the event. Remix culture borrows its sensorial saturation from post-industrial society, but reproduces this saturation in an aesthetic context that channels it. Remix "artworks" remain "open", bringing some sense to the world's cacophony (at least for a moment). Yet this is achieved via ephemeral bricolages and assemblages, which are always subject to transformation, and always susceptible to being reorganized in a new way....

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