[spectre] any news on the revolutions?

[Simon Biggs]

You could ask William Hague. He has an excellent reputation ;)

Best

Simon


On 10/03/2011 11:59, "Andreas Maria Jacobs" <ajaco at xs4all.nl> wrote:

> Hi Simon
> 
> understandable, feeling insulted depends on cultural sensibilities.
> 
> I need a diplomat to help
> 
>  ; - )
> 
> -- AA
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> 
> 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" <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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>> 
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>> 
>> 
>> 
> 
> 
> 


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