Response to the Reading

I think this reading contained several interesting concepts about contemporary art that got me thinking. Contemporary art and deejaying, for example, are not two things that I would immediately think to compare. However, it does seem to be how artists work in this era, i.e. by reusing or combining prexisting ideas or works and elaborating on them in some way. My response to this reading was mainly to the idea of using sources in contemporary art; I've never relied too heavily on sources (consciously, anyways), and it was interesting for me, as an artist, to read this article which offered some insight into the thought process behind reusing old art. One artist said something along the lines of "why make new objects when we have so many in the world already?" I loved that; I can see how an artist would use this idea to jusitfy working solely from sources. I could see myself working from sources because of that idea: there are so many concepts and artworks in the world that haven't been fully analyzed and understood, and it would be interesting to create a work which elaborates on its source's original meaning.