“An important aspect of what we could name “civilization of today” lies on the possibility of rearrangement of existing things. We detect this civilization of rearrangement when we think about a growing dj culture or the culture of curating. These ‘post production’ instances mark the will to elaborate a plethora of a heterogeneous set of existing elements through a single move of selecting: this selecting act determines the character of each particular choice. These post-production works are analogue to works of a particular collage. We can think about the civilization of today as a multitude of desperate moves to reorder a huge storehouse of juxtaposed elements. This particular rearrangement in the same time determines unifications of “the multiple” and handles an existing material in order that it gets a new meaning. In this new aesthetics of quantity, the idea of rearrangement can be considered as a type of creation. I remember Walter Benjamin’s idea about what an essay could be: a series of fragments: the essayist was called to put in a line those fragments and to take care and handle the junctions between them. Then the whole work was not an accumulation but something different, a passage between fragments. Today this exact line and the junction are no longer needed. We seek for interesting re-appropriations provoking approaches of different elements, transformations of the given. This aesthetic orientation brings a new meaning of simple collage techniques. Collage is not now just a creative act of putting together different elements in a Max Ernst rationale. We are forced to put together old existing things in order to act as creators. The existing things are destinated to be the creative material of tomorrow. Collage is rather an intellectual attitude and a way of conceptual condensation than a simple technique. It requires our comprehensive action in order to re appropriate the given. An appropriation is a type of inhabitation.”
