First thing:
Shannon seems really ok, a real professional person, i support her
memebership
Second thing
Hey guys, here we are talking as if we had not made any work in the last
five years. So why speak about art and artists as if we were kids for the
first time in a museum. Rob and others have helped us make distinction
between art and collborative art. The latter is highly dependent on
organizations and making them do high quality things that seem new although
they rest on very old rules and conventions that were temporarily forgotten
by industrial engineerings and simpleminded rationalists. We also know that
art today is equally a highly organized activity with art fairs, art events,
art markets, art criticism that, despite it very capitalist organisation (
here more trade than industiry) gives the impression of novelty and also has
a capacity for critcism and even subversion. We also know that most of us
are simply bored, and some also indignated, with what corporations and
states tend to do, even if they legitimize themselves by making our pension
funds grow and energy flow. Equally we know that they would not be able to
make us move, act, engage if we were not enthusiastic. That seems to be the
main role of business schools. Then there is all this b-shit we hear
ourselves parroting by phrases " I would like to share with you" or "I feel
so excited about this or that". This signposts ouir immense need and desire
to engage in the world how ugly it might seem. Here art has a somewhat
dubious role to play too. For honestly what is there to be excited about
and who is really willing to share...But, finally, all art is not softly,
gently, nicely there to reform the world. It is not all about sniffing
flowers, admiring sunsets or feeling that we feel with the help of some
mudwrestling craftperson. For there is still some power left in the old
artists toolbox. And this power is to me much preferable and more
justifyable than the current abuse of dynamite in almost every streetcorner
of our ugly world...
p
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From: "Mette Mønsted" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2007 11:40 PM
Subject: SV: Nomination of Shannon O'Donnell for AACORN list
Good idea with Shannon.
Mette
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Fra: Aesthetics, Creativity, and Organisations Research Network
[mailto:[log in to unmask]] På vegne af Hatch, Mary Jo
Sendt: 6. februar 2007 22:06
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Emne: Re: Nomination of Shannon O'Donnell for AACORN list
Sound great! I second your nomination Rob.
Jo Hatch
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From: Aesthetics, Creativity, and Organisations Research Network on behalf
of Robert Austin
Sent: Tue 2/6/2007 4:05 PM
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Subject: Nomination of Shannon O'Donnell for AACORN list
I'd like to nominate Shannon O'Donnell for participation in this
list. She's a research associate at Harvard Business School working
on research and course development in the area of artful and creative
work. She's also a theatre director and dramaturg who just finished
directing a play for the main stage of a major US regional theatre
(People's Light and Theatre Company in Pennsylvania)...
Rob
Robert D. Austin
Associate Professor
Harvard Business School
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