“It’s supposed to be shit” is and will almost always be a bullshit excuse in my eyes. It’s on par with “it’s just a prank, bro” and “it’s a social experiment.” Performance art is brilliant and fantastic and doing something badly isn’t that, it’s just lazy.
You’re not deconstructing anything by doing it badly, you’re just doing it badly. If all your “deconstruction” is doing is asking “what is [concept] really?”
Then you’re a boring person asking boring questions. Or at least 9 times outta 10 it’s boring, because I do love the ship of Theseus.
In 2019, I bought a cheap guitar at a pawn shop. Over the course of the following year, I swapped out the neck, the tuners, the pickups, the controls, the jack, and the bridge. Is it still the same guitar?
If my guitar went through the Star Trek transporter beam and had all its molecules disassembled into energy and was reassembled via the inverse process from different energy strings, is it still that guitar or is it a duplicate?
I always have an issue with the use of the words “the same” because it kinda ruins it for me, because like it objectively isn’t “the same” it’s the guitar with some things changed about it.
Is it the guitar you picked up at a pawn shop though? Yeah it is. It is still the guitar
Is it still that guitar if I swap out the body for a new one? What if that also requires a pickguard swap? What if the tremolo cavity plate no longer fits and I need to swap that out, too?
