MetaConstruct Manifesto: annihilation poetics and amagideon art in an authoritarian and antagonistic age
<http://www.bbrace.net/M-scans/M-scans.html> Contemporary "Artworld artists" on the self-aggrandizing circuit, are invariably reduced to illustrating and trivializing popular political opinions under the deceitful guise of creating clever cultural currency and cloying "relevancy." Are you just as amazed to learn that apparently most of these (disingenuous) "artists" today have regular commercial gallery exhibits, international representation, government funding, cushy teaching jobs, critical support, duplicitous colleagues, fancy homes and professional studios/supplies?... (While basic necessities are routinely denied to many of us our entire working-lives by creepy, arrogant Artworld and Corporate despots...) Accordingly, my MetaConstruct installations can now only occur in the aftermath of significant cultural devastation -- gutted, globalized galleries, crucified curators, fraudulent Arts-funding and the hoax of institutional Art-history... In the 20+ years since my last public installation, these various, modest components have continued to be developed beyond their depicted states here/online. Obviously, increasingly corrupt and incestuous Art Institutions cannot be trusted to exhibit and support, fine integral work that enables idioms rather than regurgitated stylistic/ideological constraints and apologetics... Perhaps, at-heart, this work was always an independent aspiration seeking intimate constellar conditions for its long-regarded re-entry into a respectable realm -- poised as it was, on the perpetually charred cultural rubble of the present -- but we still yearn for righteous revenge, equitable access to resources, and an end to irresponsible, supercilious, cabalistic, cultural imperialism. <http://www.bbrace.net/M-scans/M-scans.html> /:b ______________________________________________ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre