What I've learned from the working on the Precedents.txt http://www.alansondheim.org/osfish.jpg 1. In the sense of producing a coherent body of work suitable for gallery exhibitions, I'm not an artist. My work is always exploratory. 2. My work tends to be physically small and proof-of-concept rather than 'finished.' 3. It rarely comes in series, but more in accumulations. 4. It's difficult to display. 5. I tend to give my gallery displays away at the end of a show instead of attempting sales (which would never occur). I've never had a dealer. 6. I'm more interested in theory, ideas, the world as it is, a kind of fundamental thinking that problematizes itself, rather than production. 7. Mind and body are paramount in the work, and both may draw any theoretically purified aesthetics down into the muck. 9. My work is usually thought and experiment. It's never "done." It's always philosophical one way or another. It tends towards a mistaken idea of the ultimate and another mistaken idea of the grounds. 10. I always approach the world with a sense of wonder, thinking through debris, desire, structure, immersive and/or definable structures. 11. I think obsessively about everything and see simultaneity in everything. 12. Somehow my work has generally but not entirely avoided critical assessments, articles, discussions, publications, reviews, recognitions, financing, and descriptions in various art, electronic literature, music, etc. histories, and interviews. 13. I have learned more from my students than they have from me. 14. I am too critical, tormented with self-doubt, self-hatred, and obsession, I'm too much a "difficult person" which I trace back increasingly to an upbringing that was somewhat harrowing psychologically. 15. My art "objects" are all trivial in a sense, although the thought behind them is not. 16. I've never learned anything in depth. I've never been able to learn anything in depth. I've never mastered anything. 17. I should stop doing assessments like this. __ _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@lists.netbehaviour.org https://lists.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
