For once, I can agree with Berg. There are always previously unstated/unpresented ways to express freedom. Since Duchamp the majority of trendy artists (I should say curators) have mostly chosen to express it through vulgarity. Extremism at work. The final point will be, as I've said before, purely virtual, like a redux of Roman Coliseum entertainment murders; the next step in this case, real people having public sex while thickly covered in their own excrement. Low as the Turner folks go, they still stick with representation. Too timid. Remember, don't blame the artists (or chosen sociopaths), blame the curators. They are the artists. The so-called artists are only the actors.
In actual state practice, the Nazis came as close to virtuality as anyone ever has. At their official state headquarters, a very classic type entry had real soldiers standing at guard on raised platforms where there would normally be only statues of lions or some such. wc ----- Original Message ---- From: joseph berg <[email protected]> To: aesthetics-l <[email protected]> Sent: Tue, October 2, 2012 3:04:17 AM Subject: Turner Prize 2012 I think I'm getting nauseous: http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/news/a-bearded-lady-human-excrement-having-sex-the-woolworths-choir-and-scottish-psychiatrist-rd-laingturner-prize-2012-contenders-go-on-show-8192641.html
