I think in the usual sense of the word, authenticity is more than problematic - it's suspect. You can go all the way back to Warhol, you can go through white jazz or blues, etc. - through Adorono - it's a mire. It might be better to ask how art can function (yes, this brings up its own problems) in a neoliberalist world - or what are the statuses of artworlds for that matter?
But there are also problems with 'simulacra,' which can be taken as a way of avoiding what actually occurs for participants in given situations. If you look at reality tv for example - which is of the spectacle, specular, and a simulacrum in so many ways - you find labor, class, bodies behind it. I worry about any categories; I recognize their academic use of course, but they often seem to obscure in the long run. But then theory to me seems somewhat bankrupt itself... - Alan On Wed, 13 Oct 2010, Simon Biggs wrote: > Interesting questions, especially how can art maintain its authenticity in a > Neoliberalist world? > > The first step to addressing this might be to establish what you mean by > authenticity, one of the most problematic concepts in our postmodern > neo-liberalist world. Can anything be authentic? In a culture manifest as > simulacra I wonder what answer might be determinable? > > 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 in CoLlaborative Environments > http://www.eca.ac.uk/circle/ > Electronic Literature as a Model of Creativity and Innovation in Practice > http://www.elmcip.net/ > Centre for Film, Performance and Media Arts > http://www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/film-performance-media-arts > > >> From: marc garrett <[email protected]> >> Reply-To: NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity >> <[email protected]> >> Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2010 11:49:15 +0100 >> To: NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity >> <[email protected]> >> Subject: Re: [NetBehaviour] From today... >> >> Hi Tom, >> >> No problem, I have posted a version of my reading list on here anyway. >> >> Perhaps you missed earlier chats with Alan regarding my course, its >> subject and theme etc... >> >> ..."The programme of study falls under - Film/Television/Media Studies >> Research. Although many individuals are studying digital, media art >> within this framework of study. >> >> An edited intro... >> >> How artists engage in the process of taking control of the medium of >> technology, and their own creative voice; is complicated and works at >> many different degrees of self-agency and situation-based needs. The >> Situationists in their own time had to bring about a completely new way >> of being in the world. They changed habits and approaches to their own >> art, introducing new territories of art practice, adapting and moving >> their attention into the realms of film, book distribution and projects >> (happening) in everyday culture. In light of Debord's statement "There >> can be no freely spent time until we possess the modern tools for the >> construction of everyday life. The use of such tools will mark the leap >> from a utopian revolutionary art to an experimental revolutionary art. >> >> My starting question is - How can art maintain its authenticity in a >> Neoliberalist world? >> >> It's a little bit more complex, but the above give's you some idea :-)" >> >> wishing you well. >> >> marc >> >> >>> marc. >>> I wasn't clear, when people say "what are you reading at such and >> such a place" it means what's the course about, not literally "what ARE >> you reading" >>> >>> :) >>> >>> >>> >>> --- On Mon, 11/10/10, marc garrett <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> >>> From: marc garrett <[email protected]> >>> Subject: Re: [NetBehaviour] From today... >>> To: "NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity" >> <[email protected]> >>> Date: Monday, 11 October, 2010, 22:12 >>> >>> Hi Tom, >>> >>> For the sake of the Netbehaviour community I will send you a list >>> 'personally', if you are interested. >>> >>> wishing you well. >>> >>> marc >>>> Good for you! >>>> What are you "reading" as posh people would say? >>>> >>>> tom >>>> >>>> On 11/10/2010 16:01, marc garrett wrote: >>>>> Hi Netbehaviourists, >>>>> >>>>> From today... >>>>> >>>>> I am a student at Birkbeck University - a whole new experience >> for me. >>>>> >>>>> It's good to become someone else again ;-) >>>>> >>>>> marc >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> 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 > > > > Edinburgh College of Art (eca) is a charity registered in Scotland, number > SC009201 > > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > > == email archive: http://sondheim.rupamsunyata.org/ webpage http://www.alansondheim.org music archive: http://www.espdisk.com/alansondheim/ == _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
