Pasolini and ChatGPT: The Crutches of Contemporary Art Writing
A satirical essay from Collezione da Tiffany critiques the overuse of Pier Paolo Pasolini and ChatGPT in contemporary art discourse. The author argues that ChatGPT has liberated curatorial texts from incomprehensible jargon, making them banal but readable. Pasolini, meanwhile, has become a universal reference point for everything from broken ceramics to performance art, serving as a passe-partout for exhibition titles, talk themes, and content. The essay also mocks the reliance on Italo Calvino, Heidegger, Baudrillard, Deleuze, and Borges as intellectual shorthand, with Borges' labyrinth cited as the ultimate signifier of depth. The piece reflects on how these references are recycled endlessly, with the author claiming more pages have been written using Calvino's 'Lezioni americane' and 'Le città invisibili' than Calvino himself wrote.
Key facts
- ChatGPT is used to generate curatorial texts, replacing incomprehensible jargon with banal but readable prose.
- Pier Paolo Pasolini is cited as a universal reference in contemporary art, applied to ceramics, photocopies, and performances.
- Italo Calvino's 'Lezioni americane' and 'Le città invisibili' are frequently quoted in exhibition texts.
- Philosophers like Heidegger, Baudrillard, and Deleuze are also used as intellectual shorthand.
- Borges' labyrinth is considered the ultimate reference for intellectual credibility.
- The essay is published on Collezione da Tiffany, an Italian art blog.
- The article is part of a series titled 'Un giovedì della Valacchi'.
- The piece includes an image captioned 'Un giovedì della Valacchi. Il pasolinismo imperante'.
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- Collezione da Tiffany