Advertising seeks to eliminate all pre-existing assumptions from the act of communication. It does so in the interest of reaching as many consumers as possible. For entirely different reasons, the art world sustains a coalition between, on …Martin Kippenberger, who was a legendary joke teller and party entertainer, also focused on the various ways of dragging out and delaying punch lines. He told endless, repetitive jokes, but he never let the listener forget that something wa…In sum, the type of art that generates speculative profits seems to rest on the shoulders of the type that was required to justify itself in cycles of artistic Mehrwert formation, and is now able to make itself comfortable within a deeply f…
Martin Kippenberger
artist · 3 mentions across 1 reading
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Martin Kippenberger appears in the course readings primarily as an exemplar of how artists manipulate temporal expectation and narrative delay—using endless repetition and deferred punchlines as a formal strategy rather than just comedic technique. The readings invoke him to theorize how art can sustain attention and speculation through the deliberate stretching of meaning-making, a practice that sits in tension with advertising's drive to collapse all ambiguity in pursuit of mass consumption. His work on the mechanics of delayed gratification in communication bears on how contemporary art generates economic and symbolic value through formal obstruction rather than clarity.
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