Ah there you are, you see. Dreaming away for a hundred years, well may be
twenty or so, only to be awoken to be told your off topic.
So what about this issue of 'us visual artists' being >hopeless
comunikashtors<
I wonder how many people on visual art topic lists, use email that support
images? Is it worth embedding visual material?. Personally I am always
suspicious of attachments and large file sizes, if I don't know where they
originate, and especially if they are likely to be off-topic. Its like
being awoken by a falling brick.
Others have said that visual artists do not communicate or organise well.
Look
at many multi-arts organizations, or arts-education organizations and I bet
you will find their committees are dominated by performers and musicians.
This is despite having tried to recruit visual artists who are busy, locked
up in
their garrets trying to live out, or out live the stereotype.
Let me tell you, and this might be closer to the topic, that I don't believe
it. Visual artists are not feverously working away. They are
procrastinating or sleeping for a large part of their lives. There are
exceptions but they are not the rule. Many are just planning to take up art
again, when there is an opportunity, or so it appears in my research.
(Donations on this topic may contribute to current M.Ed. research)
So let's get seriously off topic, and talk a little about some contemporary
art history. Jackson Pollock as fake art. Does it matter that Pollock's
rise to fame, along with many other aspects of the New York Art Scene, did
not arise out of a ground swell of public or artistic support, but as a
result of CIA funding ? (Frances Stonor Saunders, 1999 Granta Books).
My friends at the Australia Council recently tried to persuade me that great
art is a well documented historical continuum - and they should know they
fund visual art on this basis it seems. Well if that is the case, what might
this say about current contemporary art?
That is it! vacant e-mail lists with no traffic - the quintessential
expression of contemporary culture. Oh God! and Etienne and I have gone and
wrecked it. I feel like vandal in the National Gallery!
No I don't. I'm just like those graffitists, and artists who can't abide
seeing a blank space or fresh canvas.
Perhaps you can give it to me again. What is the purpose of this list, that
awoke me from my slumbers?
Paul R.
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From: TInCAN <[log in to unmask]>
To: Paul Reader <[log in to unmask]>
Cc: Etienne de Bary <[log in to unmask]>; artnet <[log in to unmask]>;
liste art-visual <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, 8 October 1999 3:19
Subject: Re: is this list asleep ?
> Perchance to dream?
> Us visual artists - honestly - no sense of time, hopeless communikashtors.
loafing and idling.
> Nice to be woken up by such a handsome prince. Though maybe a bit
off - who knows?
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