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Some Aphorisms:

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.

Some Confusions in Language, Nomenclature, and otherwise:

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.