[spectre] any news on the revolutions?

[Simon Biggs]

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" <ajaco at xs4all.nl> 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
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