Let's not get into the "real". That is just as problematic (suspect) as authenticity.
My original point was intended to suggest that it might be a self-defeating tactic to associate artistic practice with authenticity in an antagonistic opposition to neo-liberalism. Whilst art is already suspect, to associate it with something that has been deconstructed to the point of unviability (the authentic) is to add injury to insult. The "real" is in the same (sinking) boat. 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: Rob Myers <[email protected]> > Reply-To: NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity > <[email protected]> > Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2010 16:50:46 +0100 > To: <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [NetBehaviour] From today... > > On 10/13/2010 04:22 PM, Alan Sondheim wrote: >> >> I think in the usual sense of the word, authenticity is more than >> problematic - it's suspect. > > How about "realistic"? > > Realistic artistic practice (process), realistic art (product). > > Realism is the absence of sentiment. It's a kind of efficiency (to > ironise a neoliberal shibboleth ;-) ). > > Producing something realistic in the unreality of neoliberalism (it's > markets all the way down...) can be approached in various ways. > > The successful results will be authentic in a non-suspect sense by > virtue of their realism. Which I would make less tautological if I had > more time. ;-) > > - Rob. > _______________________________________________ > 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
