Dear fellow frameworkers, I am heartbroken for Saul Levine. Nobody, least an open hearted and minded, generous professor like Saul should ever be treated and hurt this way.
I find the battering of an accomplished artist and senior professor months before his retirement after a successful teaching career of four decades extremely disturbing. Saul Levine is being injured as an artist, as a teacher and as a person. The core of any art school are the artists, is it not? It is unacceptable that this core is being attacked by parasites who feed of the artists genius, and harm him in the process. (the students chose MassArt, they chose Saul Levine as their professor, they had the rare opportunity to study directly with an exceptional artist, an artist who sacrifices a part of himself to teach new generations of artists). This concerns all of us. Saul says "there is a need to fight back". That's exactly what needs to be done. MassArt should not get away with treating its professors in this fashion. Nor should any other institution. This problem is not a MassArt problem alone, its a problem of "a bad moment" = a bad cultural moment, and a problem of problematic Title IX policy interpretations. How can we protect, support and help heal??? Jana Sent from +1 (415) 202 31 93 > On Apr 1, 2018, at 6:55 PM, Alan Sondheim <sondh...@panix.com> wrote: > > > god knows what they'd do with the Blue Tape Kathy Acker and I made - and it's > been freely shown publicly all over the place. > > this is disgusting. infantilism just about sums it up. > >> On Sun, 1 Apr 2018, Michael Betancourt wrote: >> >> It seems that these days the real crime is making art. Creating work that >> challenges assumptions, perhaps even works against biases is something that >> will always "harm" the narrow minded by forcing them to consider positions >> which make them uncomfortable. This situation sounds a lot like what >> happened here. >> >> Michael Betancourt >> Savannah, GA >> >> >>> On Apr 1, 2018, at 6:42 PM, John Muse <jm...@sonic.net> wrote: >>> Surprised that I haven?t read anything here on the recent news that Saul >>> Levine "was pushed out of the Massachusetts College of Art and Design after >>> administrators accused him of 'harming students' by showing his film Notes >>> After Long Silence, 1989, to his senior thesis class.? >>> Here are a few resources: >>> Saul?s original post detailing his decision to ?[retire] from MassArt,? as >>> he says, and his reasons: >>> https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10215932754649479&id=1165322620 >>> The Artforum article: >>> https://www.artforum.com/news/filmmaker-saul-levine-leaves-massart-following-dispute-over-artwork-74844 >>> Indiewire article: >>> http://www.indiewire.com/2018/03/saul-levine-mass-art-notes-after-long-silence-1201945678/ >>> Saul?s Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/saullevine Films mentioned >>> in the Artforum article include "Notes After a Long Silence" >>> https://vimeo.com/73242778 and ?The Big Stick / An Old Reel? >>> https://vimeo.com/89886468 >>> j/PrM >>> ************************************************* >>> john muse >>> visual media scholar >>> haverford college >>> he/him/his >>> http://www.finleymuse.com >>> http://www.haverford.edu/faculty/jmuse >>> http://haverford.academia.edu/JohnMuse >>> ************************************************* >>> _______________________________________________ >>> FrameWorks mailing list >>> FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com >>> https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks >> _______________________________________________ >> FrameWorks mailing list >> FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com >> https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks > > New CD:- LIMIT: > http://www.publiceyesore.com/catalog.php?pg=3&pit=138 > email archive http://sondheim.rupamsunyata.org/ > web http://www.alansondheim.org / cell 718-813-3285 > current text http://www.alansondheim.org/vg.txt > _______________________________________________ > FrameWorks mailing list > FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com > https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks _______________________________________________ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
