may seem a little maudlin, but I recently attended the local art museum's re-opening (we're talking multi-millions of our tax dollars))... good-g0d, I was embarrassed... there were only a couple of references-by-example-paintings that kinda-feebly-stood-up but geez! -- just your usual artworldhistory crap really...
/:b On Fri, 12 May 2006, Allan Revich wrote: > High Theory is just the ideas that we have when we're high. They are full of > meaning at the time - but the meaning disappears with the buzz. > > Low Theory states that, "If you can't eat it, screw it, or piss on it, than > it isn't good for anything". > > The most interesting bits of life happen in the Intermediate Theory, which > not coincidentally, seems to be where Fluxus is situated. > > A! > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of { brad brace } > Sent: Friday, May 12, 2006 10:27 AM > To: FLUXLIST@scribble.com > Subject: Re: FLUXLIST: Baudrillard Quotation > > > Hi, it's just that 'high theory' is invariably hierarchical; > the slots are rigged. > > /:b > > On Thu, 11 May 2006, placekraft/LeisureArts wrote: > > > Brad: > > > > I was at the conference too - Aren't we all showmen [sic] > > in our own way? I thought that conference was a nice way > > to situate "high theory," a way to "contaminate" it... > > > > >