Re: [NetBehaviour] Read this about Gilbert & George in the Evening Standard yesterday

2012-03-17 Thread Simon Biggs
ork... > > From: Michael Szpakowski > To: bob catchpole ; NetBehaviour for networked > distributed creativity > Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2012 11:06 AM > Subject: Re: [NetBehaviour] Read this about Gilbert & George in the Evening > Standard yesterday > > There&

Re: [NetBehaviour] Read this about Gilbert & George in the Evening Standard yesterday

2012-03-17 Thread dave miller
onscious even to the > creators. > > Bob > > > From: Michael Szpakowski > To: Michael Szpakowski ; NetBehaviour for networked > distributed creativity > Sent: Wednesday, 14 March 2012, 14:28 > > Subject: Re: [NetBehaviour] Read this about

Re: [NetBehaviour] Read this about Gilbert & George in the Evening Standard yesterday

2012-03-16 Thread bob catchpole
_ > From: Michael Szpakowski >To: Michael Szpakowski ; NetBehaviour for networked >distributed creativity >Sent: Wednesday, 14 March 2012, 14:28 >Subject: Re: [NetBehaviour] Read this about Gilbert & George in the Evening >Standard yesterday > > >I think I should cl

Re: [NetBehaviour] Read this about Gilbert & George in the Evening Standard yesterday

2012-03-16 Thread James Morris
did someone mention withnail & i? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zjhlZhAov0 ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour

Re: [NetBehaviour] Read this about Gilbert & George in the Evening Standard yesterday

2012-03-16 Thread dave miller
40 years of irony. On Mar 15, 2012 8:18 PM, "Fung-Lin Hall" wrote: > Gilbert && George - I saw them perform at Soho Gallery long ago in the > late 80's. > I linked their ten commandments here.. UK funny guys 2006 blog archive. > http://www.mutanteggplant.com/vitro-nasu/2006/11/30/uk-funny-guys/ >

Re: [NetBehaviour] Read this about Gilbert & George in the Evening Standard yesterday

2012-03-15 Thread Fung-Lin Hall
Gilbert && George - I saw them perform at Soho Gallery long ago in the late 80's. I linked their ten commandments here.. UK funny guys 2006 blog archive. http://www.mutanteggplant.com/vitro-nasu/2006/11/30/uk-funny-guys/ UK mountain bikers visiting Arizona, Whitnail and I , Gilbert & George, Dav

Re: [NetBehaviour] Read this about Gilbert & George in the Evening Standard yesterday

2012-03-15 Thread Alan Sondheim
On Thu, 15 Mar 2012, Rob Myers wrote: > Also, I'm sure they're being ironic. I'm just not sure when. > > - Rob. > ___ - which I think is part of their brilliance. ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@ne

Re: [NetBehaviour] Read this about Gilbert & George in the Evening Standard yesterday

2012-03-15 Thread Rob Myers
On 15/03/12 12:47, John Wild wrote: > Curiously G&G have attended the London Anarchist Book fair a number of > times and have left small - £20 - tokens of their appreciation for Class > War. > > Maybe it’s a payment for all the stickers and graff they have cooped > into their work. Or maybe they j

Re: [NetBehaviour] Read this about Gilbert & George in the Evening Standard yesterday

2012-03-15 Thread dave miller
Maybe they're being ironic? dave On 15 March 2012 12:47, John Wild wrote: > Curiously G&G have attended the London Anarchist Book fair a number of times > and have left small - £20 - tokens of their appreciation for Class War. > > > > Maybe it’s a payment for all the stickers and graff they have

[NetBehaviour] Read this about Gilbert & George in the Evening Standard yesterday

2012-03-15 Thread John Wild
Curiously G&G have attended the London Anarchist Book fair a number of times and have left small - £20 - tokens of their appreciation for Class War. Maybe it’s a payment for all the stickers and graff they have cooped into their work. Or maybe they just like young anarco skinheads. Curious Th

Re: [NetBehaviour] Read this about Gilbert & George in the Evening Standard yesterday

2012-03-14 Thread Alan Sondheim
At least I thought G&G part of the corporate artworld back then - Castelli and Sonnabend were the NY powerhouses. - Alan == eyebeam: http://eyebeam.org/blogs/alansondheim/ email archive http://sondheim.rupamsunyata.org/ web http://www.alansondheim.org / cell 347-383-8552 music: http://www.espd

Re: [NetBehaviour] Read this about Gilbert & George in the Evening Standard yesterday

2012-03-14 Thread Simon Biggs
> people who laugh,with same expression on face,Yoyoi, Koons...and many > other...world today is full of good artists and good art...but not more than > that...but that *more* was from Gioto,or Rublev something we looking for in > art...MANIK...MARCH...2012... > - Original Message

Re: [NetBehaviour] Read this about Gilbert & George in the Evening Standard yesterday

2012-03-14 Thread manik
ther...world today is full of good artists and good art...but not more than that...but that *more* was from Gioto,or Rublev something we looking for in art...MANIK...MARCH...2012... - Original Message - From: "Rob Myers" To: Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2012 9:02 PM Subject: Re:

Re: [NetBehaviour] Read this about Gilbert & George in the Evening Standard yesterday

2012-03-14 Thread Rob Myers
On 14/03/12 16:26, Alan Sondheim wrote: > > otoh, Hirst & Co. seem, at least from the US, > to have lost whatever panache they had. The American artworld gossip blogs I read always compare Hirst unfavourably to Koons. I think this is necessary in order to ignore the debt they both owe to German

Re: [NetBehaviour] Read this about Gilbert & George in the Evening Standard yesterday

2012-03-14 Thread Rob Myers
On 14/03/12 12:03, dave miller wrote: > Here's an article arguing that G&G are not fascists: > http://www.newmediastudies.com/art/gilbert.htm > > and an interview "We are searching for the truth" > http://www.jca-online.com/gilbertandgeorge.html I really, really, really do believe that they are a

Re: [NetBehaviour] Read this about Gilbert & George in the Evening Standard yesterday

2012-03-14 Thread Alan Sondheim
ked distributed creativity Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2012 11:06 AM Subject: Re: [NetBehaviour] Read this about Gilbert & George in the Evening Standard yesterday There's a very interesting - nearly hidden nowadays - history of discussion, debate and more on this. Stalin, Mao, Pol Po

Re: [NetBehaviour] Read this about Gilbert & George in the Evening Standard yesterday

2012-03-14 Thread Paul Hertz
duct and the > artistic success or failure of her work... > > -- > *From:* Michael Szpakowski > *To:* bob catchpole ; NetBehaviour for > networked distributed creativity > *Sent:* Wednesday, March 14, 2012 11:06 AM > > *Subject:* Re: [N

Re: [NetBehaviour] Read this about Gilbert & George in the Evening Standard yesterday

2012-03-14 Thread Michael Szpakowski
11:06 AM Subject: Re: [NetBehaviour] Read this about Gilbert & George in the Evening Standard yesterday There's a very interesting - nearly hidden nowadays - history of discussion, debate and more on this. Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot & more all demanded a politico/ethical dimension to art (

Re: [NetBehaviour] Read this about Gilbert & George in the Evening Standard yesterday

2012-03-14 Thread dave miller
gt; > Any of Trotsky's writings on art repay reading as does the tremendous "Art > as the Coginiton of Life" by Voronsky... > > cheers > michael > > > > > From: bob catchpole > To: NetBehaviour for networked distrib

Re: [NetBehaviour] Read this about Gilbert & George in the Evening Standard yesterday

2012-03-14 Thread Michael Szpakowski
emendous "Art as the Coginiton of Life" by Voronsky... cheers michael From: bob catchpole To: NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2012 7:35 AM Subject: Re: [NetBehaviour] Read this about Gilbert & Geor

Re: [NetBehaviour] Read this about Gilbert & George in the Evening Standard yesterday

2012-03-13 Thread bob catchpole
lex, subtle and careful work embodied truths about the >world *despite* his politics. >cheers >michael > > > > > > > > From: bob catchpole >To: Michael Szpakowski ; NetBehaviour for networked >distributed creativity >Sent: Sunday, M

Re: [NetBehaviour] Read this about Gilbert & George in the Evening Standard yesterday

2012-03-11 Thread Michael Szpakowski
cheers michael From: bob catchpole To: Michael Szpakowski ; NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity Sent: Sunday, March 11, 2012 5:30 PM Subject: Re: [NetBehaviour] Read this about Gilbert & George in the Evening Standard yesterday Michael, Are you suggesting that there'

Re: [NetBehaviour] Read this about Gilbert & George in the Evening Standard yesterday

2012-03-11 Thread bob catchpole
, 13:57 >Subject: Re: [NetBehaviour] Read this about Gilbert & George in the Evening >Standard yesterday > > >There's no equation, unfortunately, between good (by which I mean left) >politics and good art. >There are some artists with rotten politics who repay repeate

Re: [NetBehaviour] Read this about Gilbert & George in the Evening Standard yesterday

2012-03-10 Thread Michael Szpakowski
liberating, but that's another and longer discussion... cheers michael From: dave miller To: NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity Sent: Saturday, March 10, 2012 11:00 AM Subject: Re: [NetBehaviour] Read this about Gilbert & George in the

Re: [NetBehaviour] Read this about Gilbert & George in the Evening Standard yesterday

2012-03-10 Thread dave miller
Hi Rob This makes sense to me - Gilbert and George have become the Terry Thomases of the art world. dabe On 6 March 2012 19:31, Rob Myers wrote: > On 06/03/12 17:03, marc garrett wrote: >> >> I think it's obvious that G&G are elitists, and would not wish to lose >> any income from their bourgeo

Re: [NetBehaviour] Read this about Gilbert & George in the Evening Standard yesterday

2012-03-09 Thread manik
- Original Message - From: "Rob Myers" To: Sent: Friday, March 09, 2012 10:01 PM Subject: Re: [NetBehaviour] Read this about Gilbert & George in the Evening Standard yesterday On 06/03/12 22:41, manik wrote: > > so...Gilbert & George are Buddhas of '

Re: [NetBehaviour] Read this about Gilbert & George in the Evening Standard yesterday

2012-03-09 Thread Rob Myers
On 06/03/12 22:41, manik wrote: > > so...Gilbert & George are Buddhas of ''Corporation Art'' same as I love this description. > Damien,Hockney,...name them...of course there's people who still believe in > art but it's better for them to change name of their work...instead 'art' > they could n

Re: [NetBehaviour] Read this about Gilbert & George in the Evening Standard yesterday

2012-03-06 Thread manik
r for them to change name of their work...instead 'art' they could name that as 'techne'...it's not important to make REVOLUTION on the first place...for beginning it's good to make revolution in language of revolution/you could replace word 'revolution' wit

Re: [NetBehaviour] Read this about Gilbert & George in the Evening Standard yesterday

2012-03-06 Thread Rob Myers
On 06/03/12 17:03, marc garrett wrote: > > I think it's obvious that G&G are elitists, and would not wish to lose > any income from their bourgeois client base. Their original artistic gesture was to conflate aesthetic and social form. This was interesting but over time it has led to their public

Re: [NetBehaviour] Read this about Gilbert & George in the Evening Standard yesterday

2012-03-06 Thread marc garrett
Hi Dave, Why anyone would listen to or even give their opinions any weight is beyond me. I think it's obvious that G&G are elitists, and would not wish to lose any income from their bourgeois client base. They are on the side of the exploiters - it's good business sense as far as they are con

[NetBehaviour] Read this about Gilbert & George in the Evening Standard yesterday

2012-03-06 Thread dave miller
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/arts/visual-arts/wed-rather-side-with-the-bankers-than-some-vegan-protester-twit-on-benefits-say-gilbert-and-george-7537242.html "By the mid-Seventies they were already a fully fledged double-act. Sexually libertarian, revolutionary even, they have always been politica