Living in the End [of] Time

LIVING IN THE END [OF] TIME Series Catalog

Sculptural Poetry by Joseph A. W. Quintela

Contact Information: (e) joseph@josephquintela.com (w) www.josephquintela.com (t) 646-652-9116

Artist Statement LIVING IN THE END [OF] TIME appropriates the title of Slavoj Zizek's "Living in the End Times" with a strategic de-stabilization of its apocalyptic overtones deployed to allow for an undertone of hope amongst ruin. Re-framing "The End Times" into "The End of Time" opens up a reinterpretation of the title to mean the de-temporalized exploratory modalities of play and imagination, the ground where the impending ecological and social collapse can be re-articulated into a sustainable, generative future. Similarly, quotes from the book have been de-contextualized and appended as titles to each of the sculptures.

Following from the restricted palate of the BLACK WATER series, LIVING IN THE END [OF] TIME adds metallic pink to the black acrylic and white spray adhesive palate to bring critical elements to the fore. Additionally, a different book has been used as the source text for each sculptural poem. These books are listed in the materials and have been selected to accentuate the visual themes of technology, futurity, bi/trans-sexuality, modernity, the persistence of historical moments, the impending collapse of our ecological and social systems, and the hope for re-envisioning.

there is only one drive, the libido, striving for enjoyment and the "death drive" is the curved space of its formal structure 12’’ x 24’ bass wood base mounted with book and coffee maker; acrylic; spray adhesive; source text: The Chaos Scenario by Bob Garfield $1600

that which we know but about which we have to talk and act as if we do not know 24”x24” canvas with 12x24” bass wood boards mounted with books and spray paint cans; acrylic; spray adhesive; hot glue; source text: Precious Records: Women in China's Long Eighteenth Century by Susan Mann $1200

while "spontaneously" he thinks that he is in direct contact with reality, his relationship to reality is in fact sustained by complex digital machinery 36�x12� canvas mounted with laptops and books; acrylic; spray adhesive $2000

precisely that which cannot be included into any meaningful totality, its meaningless facticity a permanent threat to meaning, its prospect a reminder that there is no final way out 12”x24” bass wood board; 36” 1 inch bass wood dowels and blocks; jeans; acrylic; spray adhesive; multiple books $3000

but what one can change is the virtual dimension of the past -- when something radically New emerges it retroactively creates its own possibilities, its own causes or conditions 24”x24” canvas and 9”x12” canvas with mounted book; stick; acrylic; spray adhesive; source text: The Chaos Scenario by Bob Garfield $1000

while the two lovers hold hands, they do not look into each other's eyes; they look together outwards, to some third point, there common cause 12�x16� canvases with mounted books; acrylic; spray adhesive; hot glue; source texts: Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf and Hesiod: The Homeric Hymns and Homerica translated by Hugh G. Evelyn-White $1000

that of accepting waste as such, of discovering the aesthetic potential of waste, of decay, of the inertia of rotten material which serves no purpose 36”x36” canvas adjoined to 12”x36” canvas and mounted with book, detritus donated by various spectators (and recorded in accompanying moleskin); acrylic; spray adhesive; source text: Art in New York; collaboration with Iszy Bonney $1500