Hi, our last message was private for Alan, sent from an Internet point in Paris, were we were for work, trying to download the daily 250 messages from this office account, so it was not directed to the list, it was my error. We are back today working at office on Sunday night to download and answer to everybody.
1) Alan, of course when I wrote that I don't have a great consideration of artists that pay I didn't refer to you! I like your work! 2) What a pity for your project Fried/Frozen, I also misunderstood, I thought it was your subversive "action" and rather clandestine in the Biennial of this year that refers to clandestines... but in the Absolute Generation project! (another Extra 50 project). I didn't find your space in the Biennial, I was searching in the wrong place. 3) Note also that NOT ALL projects pay to participate in the Biennial, but only "Extra 50" projects pay, it is a way to finance the Pavilions, I suppose, but the other Extra 50 have a good sponsor. 4) And note that in an important context like a Venice Biennial, serious curators could easy find serious sponsorization, they should not ask the participants for money . Anyway to pay or not is a personal decision, forget the Venice gossip. 5) Don't worry, other foreign artists, who don't know the Italian situation, fall in the same error : to accept to be included in a wrong context, where they had nothing in common, with image damage, some are angry as you are. 6) Problem is not the collaborative division of the exhibition costs but the consequences: that payment was the ONLY selection criteria of ALL the Italian artists and of some foreign in Brain Apt.. I have a formal invitation e-mail letter signed from both curators (who I don't know), were I am asked to pay 220 euros, if not paying, being excluded. Now I learn to someone else they were asking 1000 euros or 500 euros! Simply horrible. Poor artists! But, don't worry! your project was good, I validate and subscribe my fried/frozen participation, in the Biennial or not, it doesn't matter. Caterina ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alan Bowman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, July 11, 2003 12:26 PM Subject: FLUXLIST: bon man's rainbow academy > > > > > >1) we were asked to pay and we refused, with many important Italian > >artist, and the most important Italian visual poets (I don't have a great > >consideration of the artist who pay...), > > Everybody at the Biennale had to pay, this year La Biennale went 'private'. > And I admit that I paid, it was an simple 'career move', I wanted to be able > to put 'La Biennale di Venezia' on my curriculum (cynical li'l devil that I > am). I was led to understand that the payment would go towards the 'entry > fee' and various costs - construction, catalogue etc. In fact the whole > thing had , initially a good sense of collectivism. > > Oh How wrong you can be! > > I would like to instigate some sort of FFFO counter events against these > idiots who let us all down. Perhaps I will go and remove my name and logos > personally. > > Nurse! My scalpel! Spraycan, Matches! > > >
