The Everyday

Johnstone, s., (2008), The Everyday, London: Whitechaple & The MIT Press.
p70
it is in the space of the everyday, Marx claimed, that the workers self worth is possible. in this space, the fragments of the social world can be integrated with the essence of identity.

p81
how often is the particularity of the everyday lost as it is transformed in the process of description and interpretation?
the everyday represents an impossibly evasive terrain: to attend it is to loose it, or as Blanchot writes: 'we cannot help but miss it if we seek it through knowledge, for it belongs to a region where there is still nothing to know'
p68
the relationship between art and life is never straightforward or transparent. what cannot be denied, however, is the need for the artist to atart from the materiality of both art practice and experience.
p69
to consider art from the perspective of the everyday is to stress that the measure of art is not found by borrowing the yardsticks of other discourses, but rather from its articulation and practices within everyday life.
from'art and the everyday' there is but an indistinguishable step to the 'art of living'.
p70
a theory of the everyday is thus located in the in between spaces, the margins and disjunctive zones of the social.