-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 22/08/14 08:35 AM, michael szpakowski wrote: > I'll propose the male equivalent -an artist who likewise reeks > of faux piety and takes themselves far too seriously - Bill Viola > - yuck, pass the sick bag. Up with tastelessness! Art is not > sacrosanct, is not so fragile we have to wrap it and its > proponents up in cotton wool...
I can't move online without tripping over someone hating on Jeff Koons in a lazy and ignorant way. Which is ridiculous when there are so many energetic and informed ways to hate on him. Abramovic is that punk band you used to like who are now doing stadium tours to pay the mortgage. They have enough of a legacy that's worth preserving to make this worthwhile. But the social cost of doing so may weaken that legacy. In Abramovich's case that social cost is pop videos, unpaid internships, and copyright extension activism. Satirising Abramovic's star status reinforces it and distracts from critique of those issues. So however unpleasant the mockery is (and I personally find it quite gentle), it's essentially conservative. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJT98gEAAoJECciMUAZd2dZJvkH/jYqi0d2Lggg22FPtsNgMiQ9 ckDbcjU595lpEr4ESx9TgbaZ/lE2xl/6uKFl/g/HqnD4onxxJmRuhRE9fAo24OZ8 OuBmBKm0n+vnGhjj+2cU4rrosH5yalt8j7LXQNJcyqLIVGb2z+RKoa+4tizO8FH9 y7Qmj0LQIdefKzXoVF2bBzHdA16fz4DX7+Fds5MCANhgrwnDBd6FZyttlQrDj4PI Ta6c3DbuYsVM29N2azu6CQzfIX0IRQhMlnW0fwch8aI11fzROZa+Sr27NZZN0tmS 1tgZyyR6kjmZsxdGUQXMu0WLQT5IBCLcCO2qJLQrzCmqqiy0ZySXJ3i5gNJJzYE= =o5ym -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
