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POSTMODERNISM
In the postmodern era, research, labor, and technology are all obtained, not in the search for truth, but rather as a means to augment power. Postmodern society's goal is no longer truth, as it once was in the modern era, but rather the quest for optimum performance. The search for truth has been replaced by the search for the best possible input/output equation. Progress has become it’s own ultimate end.
Today, the technical, efficient vs inefficient, supersedes the prescriptive, just vs unjust, or the relevant, true vs false. These things have become virtually impossible to attain as postmodern society continues to set aside the unknowable in areas of faith, philosophy, and sociology, and focuses its resources on disciplines subservient to the scientific method.
This progression of thought
tends to restrict the classical meaning of truth,
to that which can be established through scientific
means. Postmodern man inevitably separates his
world into two categories, ideas and disciplines
belonging to the realm of faith or belief, and
concepts within the architecture of science.
As an artist living in the postmodern era, I continually find myself drawn to themes that explore the tension between these two definitive categories. I am always searching for a narrative with the power to articulate the relationship between spiritual and physical truth. Work of this nature, I believe, best defines our time. aDAM sTRANGE IggG |
