Have you noticed the ships passing in the night? On one ship we have
the aging Avant gardists who (while not exactly doing a William
Wordsworth) in their maturity move towards the centre, and on the
other ship, the establishment (as represented by educational
structures) who move towards formalities and methodologies of the well
experimented with experimental.
I'd like to put a limpet bomb under both ships. Cockleshell Heroes and
all that...
Tim A.
On 12 Apr 2010, at 12:49, Jeffrey Side wrote:
> Quite right, Tim. It's so easy to be experimental these days.
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> Original Message:
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> I think this is unfair cris. It's not dumb - just because it might be
> saying something you find problematic. It is simplistic, yes, but it
> does point to something a lot of people think, and I for one think,
> with regards to Baudrillard, that there is a point there to be
> answered - and maybe those of us within poetry might be in a better
> position to answer it than the art community -of which, as you know, I
> don't have high opinions. I know we won't agree on this. Modern
> artists who take the banal (their own concept of the 'everyday') and,
> via shallow knowing and tracking processes that can be learnt in 5
> minutes by 'good' students, turn it into their sacramental framed
> property, to which we have to kneel, are not going to take kindly to
> what Baudrillard says.
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