# Remilia Corporation External Memo 7/12/22: Where are the Art Critics?

By [Charlotte Fang](https://paragraph.com/@charlemagnefang) · 2022-12-12

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Transcription:

> _Remilia’s art-as-cult is an inversion of Bourriard, for whom the art object is valued primarily for its impact potential within an interconnected global system. Bourriard’s “micro-utopia” considered reality to be a result of the work._
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> _For Remilia's memetic project, this is reversed. The work is a result of the social-psychological machine surrounding it, whether it be the “_[_Warholian groupchat_](https://goldenlight.mirror.xyz/AKywgieGgURdeM_NyewNhwXtxcS6pPscQPvT4JmCdF0)_”, the free-associative algorithm arranging PFP assets, or the swarm consciousness of the user fandom._
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> _The reality is the project, and the work serves to proliferate that reality. As such, the point of control lies in who is in and who is out – in addition to what kinds of things the ‘memeplex’ encourages. Focus shifts from the traditional artist's full control over the product of art to that of a sage ruler working with the social flows which result in art._
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> _For over a year now, the problem of art and the internet is beginning to be reconciled. When Dean Kissick said the American pavilion at the Venice Biennale should have been simply a Milady, he wasn’t kidding._
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> _Yet where is the art criticism?_

Text excerpted from “[Four Notes on Reading Remilia Collective](https://goldenlight.mirror.xyz/qhsg6I_zn8o40B_Roo9Owabc_9dwAnlxFMADHM3D-Qk)”.

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*Originally published on [Charlotte Fang](https://paragraph.com/@charlemagnefang/remilia-corporation-external-memo-7-12-22-where-are-the-art-critics)*
