Henry Flynt
Henry Flynt
Henry Flyntis a philosopher, avant-garde musician, anti-art activist and exhibited artist often associated with Conceptual Art, Fluxus and Nihilism...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionArtist
CountryUnited States of America
american-artist consciousness ideal picture
I have a picture of an ideal consciousness.
american-artist mode trying
I'm trying to assemble materials for a different mode of life.
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The whole drive of western culture, the part of it which is serious, is towards an extreme objectification. It's carried to the point where the human subject is treated almost as if it's dirt in the works of a watch.
artist oil cameras
In classical oil painting, there seemed to be a radical turn to seeing things as the camera sees them, with that technological modification. I began to have a tremendous problem with all of this.
art genre-is purpose
The purpose of concept art as a genre is to unbrainwash our mathematical and logical faculties.
new-york insecure artist
When I came to New York, I began to meet the people who became the most famous artists of our time. I was insecure about my own level of ability, I didn't know whether I could compete with these people and, at the same time. I was wondering what is this anyway?
new-york artist competing
When I began competing with the other artists in New York, I discovered classical North Indian music.
art taste saws
Basically, I viewed any work of art as an imposition of another person's taste, and saw the individual making this imposition as a kind of dictator.
thinking artist class
At the same time, I was listening to black music, and I began to think that the best musicians were receiving the worst treatment. The people who were doing the greatest work were despised as lower class, with no dignity accorded to what they did.
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The stuff being promoted as serious culture and performed in the Lincoln Centre was absolutely worthless. There was no real emotion in it, the possibility of ingenuous experience had been replaced by an ideology of science and scientism.
building cognitive moved position strict
The way I devolved, moved out from, this position of strict cognitive nihilism, was with the idea of building a new culture.
black language music point
Another point I made was that black American music was a new language, and I don't feel this was ever really acknowledged.
latest logical took trying
I was trying to be up with the latest thing. To a point, I just took what I was offered, logical positivism in philosophy.
term translate composing
I began composing works which were imitative of the music I was being told about. I was also very interested in translating the music into visual terms.