me too! thankyou for your reply Curt - Helen On 11 Feb 2010, at 18:43, marc garrett wrote:
> I like that also... > > marc >> Curt, >> >> Beautiful! >> >> Tony >> >> >> *Antonio Dias:* >> http://antoniodiasadw.wordpress.com/ >> >> *Horizons of Significance:* >> http://horizonsofsignificance.wordpress.com/ >> * >> * >> *Fine Lines* >> http://finelinesamatterofdistinction.wordpress.com >> >> >> On Feb 11, 2010, at 1:21 PM, Curt Cloninger wrote: >> >>> Hi Helen (and all), >>> >>> It seems to me that for an artist, the next tactical turn is to not >>> bother about the next tactical turn (don't bother to make it; don't >>> bother to refuse to make it). The next move is to follow the topics, >>> interests, and concepts of one's own practice, however long they may >>> take to develop, into whichever communities of shared interest they >>> may lead (on or off the popular radar). The less dependent one's art >>> is on any particular "tactical" approach ("institutional critique," >>> "hacktivism," "relational aesthetics"), the more free it is to >>> pursue >>> its own peculiar ends. Indeed, what fruitful, monstrous, utterly >>> irrelevant situations may emerge? >>> >>> If I spend all my energy making art that seeks to avoid being >>> commodified by the spectacle, I'm always already being influenced by >>> the spectacle. It seems almost a requisite, then, to be willing to >>> move into art practices that don't necessarily involve "art" >>> (writing, design, urban planning, nursing, geology, advertising). It >>> is not a matter of outpacing institutions; it may be a matter of >>> using institutions to make moves that reverberate beyond >>> institutions >>> (beyond museum systems, gallery systems, biennial systems, new media >>> festival systems, academic seminar systems, online art discussion >>> group systems). Then one begins addressing larger forces without >>> being constrained to act solely within the sandbox of "art," which >>> is >>> itself always already modulated by larger forces. >>> >>> Best, >>> Curt >>> >>> >>> >>>> With participatory,conversational, collaborative, temporary, >>>> fluid >>>> approaches all being appropriated so quickly into institutional >>>> policies and communication being commodified by social networking >>>> sites.. has really made me wonder what the next 'turn' will have >>>> to be >>>> in artists tactics >>>> >>>> What new approaches will emerge? >>>> >>>> best >>>> Helen >>>> www.helenpritchard.info >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> NetBehaviour mailing list >>> NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org <mailto:NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org> >>> http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> NetBehaviour mailing list >> NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org >> http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
