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To make out the difference | |||
Between your eye and itself | |||
? the straight in the mirror | |||
Sneak up on a ? | |||
Better yet to see it cracked | |||
Up and down or side to side | |||
None of this will help you see | |||
Your eye from the other side | |||
What the mirror sees it takes | |||
And never will return | |||
The spectacle you make | |||
Don't waste time trying to run | |||
History is, they say | |||
A mirror of a kind | |||
As you look back into the past | |||
The mirror looks behind | |||
To see the past isn't good enough | |||
It's fiction, it's a lie | |||
Can tear out ? | |||
To see your own ? eye | |||
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== Chronology == | == Chronology == | ||
* {{RLink|Sighs}} | * {{RLink|Sighs}} {{MediaLink|YouTube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoTzs_J4UAg}} | ||
** [[Elisa Randazzo]] - vocals | |||
== Interpretations == | == Interpretations == | ||
''Fairest of Them All'' is a 2004 piece by art historian and [[Art & Language]] collaborator [[Charles Harrison]].<ref>https://www.artmonthly.co.uk/magazine/site/article/the-co-dependent-curator-by-paul-oneill-november-2005</ref> | |||
<blockquote> | |||
‘Artists Favourites: ACT I & II’, presented at the ICA last year, which claimed to give over the curatorial reins to artists by inviting them to select one of their favourite works of art by another artist, is a case in point. [[Art & Language]], whose favourite was ''Fairest of Them All'', 2004, by [[Charles Harrison]], highlighted the self-reflexive escapology. | |||
A framed text panel mounted upon a lectern-like plinth and spotlit from above read: ‘In appearing to make a real distinction between artist and curator the organisers have proposed a single negation: “artists are not curators”. In fact, the curatorial presence in the exhibition has been doubled. The result is a double negative: the artist is simply not not a curator. And that’s in fact how it is. A different kind of work is needed if we are to reshape the distinction and reintroduce a critical negation.’ | |||
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The title phrase comes from ''Snow White''<nowiki/>'s Evil Queen: "Mirror, mirror, on the wall, who's the fairest of them all?"<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_Mirror_(Snow_White)</ref> | |||
== References == | == References == | ||
{{Sighs Trapped by Liars}} | |||
[[Category:Songs]] | [[Category:Songs]] | ||
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Latest revision as of 23:41, 4 December 2023
Lyrics
To make out the difference Between your eye and itself ? the straight in the mirror Sneak up on a ? Better yet to see it cracked Up and down or side to side None of this will help you see Your eye from the other side What the mirror sees it takes And never will return The spectacle you make Don't waste time trying to run
History is, they say A mirror of a kind As you look back into the past The mirror looks behind To see the past isn't good enough It's fiction, it's a lie Can tear out ? To see your own ? eye
Chronology
Sighs Trapped by Liars 
- Elisa Randazzo - vocals
Interpretations
Fairest of Them All is a 2004 piece by art historian and Art & Language collaborator Charles Harrison.[1]
‘Artists Favourites: ACT I & II’, presented at the ICA last year, which claimed to give over the curatorial reins to artists by inviting them to select one of their favourite works of art by another artist, is a case in point. Art & Language, whose favourite was Fairest of Them All, 2004, by Charles Harrison, highlighted the self-reflexive escapology.
A framed text panel mounted upon a lectern-like plinth and spotlit from above read: ‘In appearing to make a real distinction between artist and curator the organisers have proposed a single negation: “artists are not curators”. In fact, the curatorial presence in the exhibition has been doubled. The result is a double negative: the artist is simply not not a curator. And that’s in fact how it is. A different kind of work is needed if we are to reshape the distinction and reintroduce a critical negation.’
The title phrase comes from Snow White's Evil Queen: "Mirror, mirror, on the wall, who's the fairest of them all?"[2]
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