Terrence writes;
This is possible online with co-creation. In Physical spaces. Areas of
neutrality; line ups and waiting areas are possible places for artistic
encounters. I have also used public bulletin boards at a local university. I
mounted bulletin boards at a cafe gallery but the management took them down
because people were interacting with them! *l*) Sidewalks, and players where
kids and parents can participate in chalk art is also a good start. The public
artillery here have a art creation area that parallels the current exhibition
with thematically media, materials and ideas for the public to interact and
create with/from.
I still don't rule out galleries but the relationships artist curator patron
critic could use as little re-evaluation. The artists who are not with the
in-crowd in any given art school grad year have a harder time engaging their
work. Some feel silenced. Something may be wrong with the way the system is and
how it is run. Change is good. Righ now the system works for a few. Some get
blacklisted or ignored for many reasons. Galleries are oft guick to reject even
very good work if it can't sell it. Youth alienation and even cases of suicide
have occured. Others find better success by moving to larger centers of
services and larger surface areas for cultural engagement. Artist run can be
even more exclusive. If you look at it realistically sometimes being accpted is
a way to shut down the evolution of the cultural engagement of artistic
practice. Who knows what destiny can hold?
Do your work and eventually things can happen. Finding time for your creative
work is often the greatest strggle if you don't get plugged in right off.
Sometimes it just takes years. Hang in and keep on creating while developing
new ways and mediums to be more creatively/culturally engaged is the way to go.
terrence
artnatural + here and now or storage.
George Free wrote:
>
>
> A genuinely popular art has to be established on the basis of a new
> relationship between artists and their public.
>
> Consider Filliou and Brecht and their shop C�dille qui Sourit. Filliou said
> "we conceived the C�dille qui Sourit as an international center of permanent
> creation, and so it
> turned out to be. We played games, invented and disinvented objects,
> corresponded with the humble and mighty, drank and talked with our
> neighbors, manufactured and sold by correspondence suspense poems and
> rebuses, started to compile an anthology of misunderstandings and an
> anthology of jokes..."
>
> A center of permanent creation, that is what galleries could be. Less a site
> of viewing and more a workshop, a place where artists --both professional
> and nonprofessional-- work to create works, where works are apprehended in
> construction, where the public can grasp the modus operandi of art and
> produce works themselves as a way of apprehending work.
>
> cheers,
> George
