Cecil Touchon wrote:
> I think commodity is one layer and art another layer of the same thing.
Desire for something doesn't exist for long without commodity coming into being.
So I guess art that turns into "commodity" is just a shorthand for "art that
people want" as opposed to "art that people don't want and so do not want to buy
so it's safe from commodification." I mean, I don't think commodification is some
sort of monolithic enemy. Despite the fact that I make work that generally
doesn't fit into the various commodity-sized niches in the world/artworld, I
don't see purchasable work as impure. I guess what I distrust in the drive to
commodification is the tendency of that process to alter the work, strip it down,
empty it of difficulty, banalize it. This, however, doesn't always happen.
Sometimes democratic desire elects to love wonderful things.
AK
