The main point of the article is that Eshun has sought to agrandise himself and his position as a pundit in the media at the expense of the ICA and the artists that support it and who are in turn meant to be supported by it. This is what happens when journalists take over cultural organisations. A bit like bankers taking over industries. The new BBC arts blogger Will Gompertz was recently the focus of some alarmed discussion as it became clear BBC Online has appointed a journalist and marketing person as their key arts commentator. It could be assumed that the UK arts scene is being taken over by such people. The ICA was the original ³artists¹ run² space in the UK but has somehow, over the past 60 years, transformed into a Hela cell. Perhaps it needs a little chemotherapy but I don¹t think Eshun is part of the cure. For him the art is irrelevant.
Best Simon Simon Biggs [email protected] [email protected] Skype: simonbiggsuk http://www.littlepig.org.uk/ Research Professor edinburgh college of art http://www.eca.ac.uk/ Creative Interdisciplinary Research into CoLlaborative Environments http://www.eca.ac.uk/circle/ Electronic Literature as a Model of Creativity and Innovation in Practice http://www.elmcip.net/ From: Jim Andrews <[email protected]> Reply-To: NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity <[email protected]> Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 16:26:06 -0800 To: NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [NetBehaviour] Crisis at the ICA: Ekow Eshun¹s Experiment in Deinstitutionalisation i'm only very remotely interested in what's going on at the ica, but the article was interesting in its picture of the relation of art and artists to the ica and, by extension, many other institutions of art. in the picture charlesworth draws, the art itself is irrelevant compared with the buzz, and the buzz not even about the art as the moment in which the art is situated. ja http://vispo.com _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour Edinburgh College of Art (eca) is a charity registered in Scotland, number SC009201
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