I like that also... marc > Curt, > > Beautiful! > > Tony > > > *Antonio Dias:* > http://antoniodiasadw.wordpress.com/ > > *Horizons of Significance:* > http://horizonsofsignificance.wordpress.com/ > * > * > *Fine Lines* > http://finelinesamatterofdistinction.wordpress.com > > > On Feb 11, 2010, at 1:21 PM, Curt Cloninger wrote: > >> Hi Helen (and all), >> >> It seems to me that for an artist, the next tactical turn is to not >> bother about the next tactical turn (don't bother to make it; don't >> bother to refuse to make it). The next move is to follow the topics, >> interests, and concepts of one's own practice, however long they may >> take to develop, into whichever communities of shared interest they >> may lead (on or off the popular radar). The less dependent one's art >> is on any particular "tactical" approach ("institutional critique," >> "hacktivism," "relational aesthetics"), the more free it is to pursue >> its own peculiar ends. Indeed, what fruitful, monstrous, utterly >> irrelevant situations may emerge? >> >> If I spend all my energy making art that seeks to avoid being >> commodified by the spectacle, I'm always already being influenced by >> the spectacle. It seems almost a requisite, then, to be willing to >> move into art practices that don't necessarily involve "art" >> (writing, design, urban planning, nursing, geology, advertising). It >> is not a matter of outpacing institutions; it may be a matter of >> using institutions to make moves that reverberate beyond institutions >> (beyond museum systems, gallery systems, biennial systems, new media >> festival systems, academic seminar systems, online art discussion >> group systems). Then one begins addressing larger forces without >> being constrained to act solely within the sandbox of "art," which is >> itself always already modulated by larger forces. >> >> Best, >> Curt >> >> >> >>> With participatory,conversational, collaborative, temporary, fluid >>> approaches all being appropriated so quickly into institutional >>> policies and communication being commodified by social networking >>> sites.. has really made me wonder what the next 'turn' will have to be >>> in artists tactics >>> >>> What new approaches will emerge? >>> >>> best >>> Helen >>> www.helenpritchard.info >> >> _______________________________________________ >> NetBehaviour mailing list >> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >> http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
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