Hey curt,
mmm. I reckon if we go by your criteria there would be no furtherfield and all the other bits that go along with it, it's a bit more complicated than that surely, which is why we are right now discussing this stuff! Stuart >------- Original Message Follows ------- >From: "Helen Pritchard" <[email protected]> >To: <[email protected]> >Subject: Re: [NetBehaviour] Crisis at the ICA: Ekow Eshun's Experiment in > Deinstitutionalisation >Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2010 19:07:09 +0000 > >me too! >thankyou for your reply Curt - >Helen >On 11 Feb 2010, at 18:43, marc garrett wrote: > >> 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 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> NetBehaviour mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > >_______________________________________________ >NetBehaviour mailing list >[email protected] >http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
