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QOQQOON (cocoon) is a webzine for writing by artists. We also republish hard-to-find pdfs online. In our current issue (#6), we are thinking about how to be an artist? Submissions are welcome. Edited by Leigh Tennant and Steven Cottingham. Published on unceded, traditional, and ancestral Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh territories (Vancouver, Canada) since 2018. ISSN 2563-4364.

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QOQQOON/Art: Sensory Alibi or Discursive Argumentation? (Ali Ahadi in Interview with Babak Golkar)
QOQQOON/Art: Sensory Alibi or Discursive Argumentation? (Ali Ahadi in Interview with Babak Golkar)Art: Sensory Alibi or Discursive Argumentation? (Ali Ahadi in Interview with Babak Golkar)
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10/01/2021
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QOQQOON/Art: Sensory Alibi or Discursive Argumentation? (Ali Ahadi in Interview with Babak Golkar)

BABAK GOLKAR: I want to begin by introducing myself, my name is Babak Golkar and I have the pleasure of introducing Ali who is…
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QOQQOON/Not-all artists are idiots! (Or, hell hath no fury…)
QOQQOON/Not-all artists are idiots! (Or, hell hath no fury…)Not-all artists are idiots! (Or, hell hath no fury…)
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10/01/2021
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QOQQOON/Not-all artists are idiots! (Or, hell hath no fury…)

This statement sounds trite, or worse, mean-spirited. But if we consider the Lacanian concept of the idiot, we may not be able to dismiss…
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QOQQOON/Art as semiological fact
QOQQOON/Art as semiological factArt as semiological fact
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QOQQOON/Art as semiological fact

It is becoming increasingly clear that the framework of the individual consciousness is determined, even in its most intimate levels, by contents which belong…
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QOQQOON/Metaphoric Exchange and the Discursive Commodity
QOQQOON/Metaphoric Exchange and the Discursive CommodityMetaphoric Exchange and the Discursive Commodity
QOQQOON/Metaphoric Exchange and the Discursive Commodity.pdfPDF
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QOQQOON/Metaphoric Exchange and the Discursive Commodity

1. Supplication and Speculation Because art after conceptualism comprises a mode of production wherein an artwork is nominated rather than crafted—that is, it is…
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QOQQOON/Art and Entropy
QOQQOON/Art and EntropyArt and Entropy
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10/01/2018
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QOQQOON/Art and Entropy

The only thing more arbitrary than an ending is a beginning. It is already well-argued that artworks open fields of conceptual possibility, becoming closed…