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Our only salvation is "next
time", particularly with regard to
installed works, and live actions.
Forget the word art -
art will always take care of itself. Eventually.
Or not.
Rule number one: There are
no rules - Except those you need to make
for yourself.
There is no such thing as
good/bad art - It is or it ain't. Art.
"Taste" is something different.
"The Market" is something different.
The "space" is
always innocent - Frequently the artist
isn't.
The arena - (of art-making/creative
engagement) is the only area of human activity
whereover we might have total freedom - and
concommitantly where the proginator can/must
take absolute responsibilty.
Conference Culture.
Public Art. (Both possible contradictions
in terms.)
That the Free Speech movement
Berkely never existed.
Installation Art.
Post Object Art.
The Decimal Calendar. (The nineties,
the Eighties. The Sixties, et al.)
The myths of Education -
Teaching/Learning - "my" student.
"The" art industry.
All Business Models.
All "models".
Prescriptive activities: Pedagogical
activities, (Illustrating the theory, To Fulfil
the expectations of the Audience/Viewer etc.)
Leisure industries.
Entertainment industries.
"The" art world.
"Public" art. A contradiction
in terms.
The Artist: The Bohemian Myth.
The Intellectual Myth.
Sound-bites are about comunication,
or information.
The Essay on the Wall.
The Catalogue essay.
Personality cults.
Being a Nice Person.
Being an Interesting person.
That the "artist"
is any more or any less than any other human
being. With all that diversity. Or has any more
rights.
That "meaning" is
exact.
That "content" is
a press release.
That "we" are us,
and "they" are different.
That "difference"
is a value.
That the "reading-list"
is finite,
and annually replaceable.
That artists are only "effective"
when visible personalities. And fun.
That visual artists should
be seen and not heard.
That artists are a consumable
item renuable annually at the end of each financial
year. That Asia was discovered by the Australia
Council in 1996.
That Japan became part of Asia
in 1998.
That a suit must cost more
than a pair of jeans.
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