Hi Simon understandable, feeling insulted depends on cultural sensibilities.
I need a diplomat to help ; - ) -- AA w: http://nictoglobe.com w: http://burgerwaanzin.nl w: http://nictoglobe.com/new/agam e: [email protected] e: [email protected] On Thu, March 10, 2011 12:45, Simon Biggs wrote: > Hi Andreas > > I guess it depends on what you consider an insult. Some people are more > sensitive than others. Writing, as you did, "the easy manipulated bunch of > ego centered 'artists' and organizations" isn't exactly edifying of those > whose favour you seek. I lived and worked in Holland for several years and > am also Australian so I know that is some cultures such direct expression > is > tolerated. However, in other cultures (such as the UK, where I live) such > comments would be considered insulting, even when true. > > I agree with you about art (in the artworld) though. > > Mainstream contemporary art has become a bloated monster that mirrors, and > functions as an apologia for, the excess and greed of late capitalist > society. I'd torch the lot. > > That's not an insult but a threat... ;) and a potential strategy for > another > approach to art - applying Metzger's auto-destructive principles to the > artworld as a whole. > > Best > > Simon > > > On 10/03/2011 11:14, "Andreas Maria Jacobs" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> hmm >> >> Simon >> >> I am not being aware of insulting anyone, just expressing a no-win >> situation >> >> Regarding creative arts, it is my experience that there is hardly any >> connection between art producers and art consumers, on the contrary >> mostly >> 'art' is left alone in an incestuous niche of autocratic power >> structures >> maintaining a rather steep protecting, invisible, social and economical >> barrier between it's self glorifying merits and the ones not taken part >> in >> it >> >> I more try to think in a 'Brechtian' way to produce "Lehrstuecke' in >> which >> the under-informed and underprivileged audiences are given insights in >> how >> 'art' can be of importance to undermine and surpass this conditions. >> >> Surely it is difficult to operate in a context that is opposing the >> underlying structures of the 'art world' itself, but as a matter of fact >> most 'normal' people for ages already dislike art as they intuitively >> feel >> the class difference expressed in its glorifying and monetary >> consequences. > > > Simon Biggs > [email protected] > http://www.littlepig.org.uk/ > > [email protected] > http://www.elmcip.net/ > http://www.eca.ac.uk/circle/ > > > ______________________________________________ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
