thanks for your support Joel I'll read up on Hans Haacke - this could help me a lot
cheers,dave On 3 October 2011 19:18, Joel Weishaus <[email protected]> wrote: > Dave; > > Look at Hans Haacke's work, which is easily found with a search engine. > On the other hand, I never thought writing political statements and passing > them off as art, such as was in vogue in the 1980s, especially in New York, > was good art. > However, no matter how it's done, political art of all sorts is very > important now. > > Best, > Joel > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "dave miller" <[email protected]> > To: "NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity" > <[email protected]> > Sent: Monday, October 03, 2011 10:05 AM > Subject: [NetBehaviour] Is it art? > > > Last saturday I stood outside the Camden Centre, where the ‘Europe > against Austerity’ conference took place. I handed out my hand made > booklets, my “Instructional Guides for Difficult Times”, to anyone who > would take one. I didn’t dare try to charge, I just wanted people to > take them. I thrust them into their hands. It felt good when people > took my “art”. > > But I’m not really sure where the art is in what I’m doing. Have I > actually stopped doing art? Am I now a political activist? Or > worryingly, because I don’t belong to any political group or > organisation, have I become like that man who used to walk up and down > Oxford Street each day, predicting the end of the world? Or the man > who used to hand out leaflets warning us all not to eat eggs? > > As the financial crisis has got increasingly urgent and desperate, I > have been sucked into it. I feel a moral duty to understand the > subject, and to do something about it, to fight back. The best way, > the natural way, for me is through my creative skills – to inform and > explain and empower. In this way I’ve become obsessed with making > critical commentary on the financial and political crisis. > > For me, this is both political action and artistic expression, but I’m > not sure if it’s art I’m making. > > What do you think? > _______________________________________________ > 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
