Datong by Rirkrit Tiravanija (Black Font) Tri-blend T-Shirt
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$26.24
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Tri-blend T-ShirtSuper soft tee, crew neck, regular fit
$26.24
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- Vintage feel, so soft, probably your new favorite t-shirt
- Regular fit
- Male model shown is 6'1" / 186 cm tall and wearing size Large
- Female model shown is 5'4" / 167 cm tall and wearing size Small
- Midweight 4.3 oz. / 145 gsm preshrunk, moisture wicking tri-blend fabric: 50% polyester, 25% cotton, 25% rayon jersey
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Datong by Rirkrit Tiravanija (Black Font)
"Untitled 2018 [Dàtóng]," by Rirkrit Tiravanija. Artwork for the loanword "Dàtóng," from the book An Ecotopian Lexicon, www.ecotopianlexicon.com. /// In An Ecotopian Lexicon, Andrew Pendakis writes, "Dàtóng (大同) is a concept derived from the Confucian tradition that isusually translated in English as “great universality"... Dàtóng envisions a society in which parts are arranged in sets of relations that are themselves fixed eternally by nature.... Provided we remain careful to acknowledge its own inherited limitations, the concept of dàtóng allows us to imagine a relationship to nonhuman life free of the reductive, humanist presuppositions of classical liberalism... Justice achieved, life collectively affirmed and effectively protected—this is at once the oldest, craziest, and most modern of dreams, and it is one we should never be too mature or informed to stop having." // In his Artist Statement, Rirkrit Tiravanija writes, "The two points regarding the Confucian concept of dàtóng that resonate most with me in Andrew Pendakis’s text, which became the foundation for my contribution, are the absence of any consideration of the relationship between humans and nature on the one hand, and its role as an actual political program during Mao’s cultural revolution, on the other. My sculpture, a lotus flower about to blossom in a Thai military boot sculpted from local clay found near my place in Chiang Mai, is a simple response that combines these two seemingly disparate elements. It is a consideration of the relationship between humans and nature; further, it is a meditation on the tension between utopian ideas and the means of their realization, posing the question of whether dàtóng 'remains consigned to the saddest of fates: that of being a beautiful (but largely toothless) idea,' or whether it can be much more, ideally beyond and outside of the realm of militarist mass politics."
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