You could ask William Hague. He has an excellent reputation ;) Best
Simon On 10/03/2011 11:59, "Andreas Maria Jacobs" <[email protected]> wrote: > 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/ >> >> >> > > > 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
