Douglas Bagnall wrote: > How about thinking of established *methods* to share? Why the 'lab' > obsession?
what methods? this is my point. working in isolation, i didn't have any 'methods'. i didn't even know what a 'method' could be. i just thrashed around and made shit (i guess you can call that a 'method', it's kind of what i'm still doing anyway). the point of a 'lab' is to have a single place where people can go. for some of us, internet-only communication just doesn't cut it. >> the arts market in New Zealand is as far as i could tell lost >> in post-colonialism and so heavy with theoretical nonsense that i always >> felt it was impossible to approach it coming as i am from a position of >> having no formal arts training. > > But having a CNZ funded something-lab isn't going to refocus the NZ art > world -- it is going to reflect it. OK, so you mentioned before you > were keen on corporate co-sponsorship, but that won't help the art. > It'll morph into 'innovation'. if you drop the CNZ funding, does your point still hold? i don't understand: why the negativity? what is so 'unique' about New Zealand that means that what works very well in more or less every country in the world just won't work there? > Isn't this an argument against a hack-space: it will fail, because in > your actually experienced reality nobody cares much? no. >> that's what it means to me, and that's why i care, because i know there >> are other people back home dealing with the same shit i was dealing with >> in my head, and that since such a place would have helped me, it could >> help them too. > > You know Damian, probably not. Young men, early twenties, feeling > isolated and confused, think they might be artists? There is nothing > that can help them. harden up, huh? fucking kiwi. -- damian stewart | skype: damiansnz | [email protected] frey | live art with machines | http://www.frey.co.nz _______________________________________________ Ada_list mailing list [email protected] http://aotearoadigitalarts.org.nz/
