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Here’s a giveaway in connection with the Viking film Severed Ways (reviewed here, official site here). This is a promotional poster by Arik Roper, who has done artwork for Sleep, High on Fire, Earth, and many other bands. It’s a big, beautiful print (click to enlarge), 39″x27″, and looks like the image above minus the “Severed Ways” text. For a chance to win it, email invisibleoranges at gmail dot com by 9pm PST 3/29 with the subject header “The Vikings discovered America”. (Tips as to worthy Viking/pagan metal bands are also welcome.) Be sure to include your name and mailing address. I will randomly pick a winner and ship the poster in a mailing tube. Skol!
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See my commentary on the film here.
Very interesting points, Nicola. I smile at the discussion of results-oriented discourse, and the pronouncement of it “lame.” I agree generally with your arguments about signifying and lack thereof, but for me that is more an experience to draw from art than a framework to apply to it. That is almost a non-framework, which is perhaps your point. Being “not interpretively intelligible” doesn’t do much for me. More importantly, it doesn’t help me communicate with others. Results-oriented analysis can be productive. Creators have intentions, viewers have expectations, and whether art fulfills or subverts those can be rich grounds for discourse.