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Re: po-mo
Nov 20, 2003, 00:15
Yep, but blame the curators who like it that way. Or the colleges that fuck up the minds of our artists, making them all go to get a job in advertising.

If you can rationalise, and intellectualise your work succesfully then curators can justify it, and will feel safe showing it (cos the old pony you tell them they can confidently tell to other people), so you get space. But, if your work is so mind boggingly OMFG! then you'll get space and never have to justify it. See Maurizio Cattelan or the Chapman Bros.

I have to defend some of the conceptual movement here. No art is empty. It's just that some of it isn't actually art, in fact some of it isn't even decent craft. {Craft != Art} after all.

Hate to be an arse, but they have a point, if one spectator doesn't 'get it' it doesn't invalidate the work. What does is the over pressing need to justify some work over other work. A lot of early conceptual theory and art had to be gone through, in order to set boundaries. Problem is, it didn't, there are no boundaries. There are no rules. this is the way it should be.

It's the artists responsibility to do something worthwhile, and the spectators responsibility to say 'thats shite that'. It's emperors new clothes shit, if we all did like the little kid and screamed 'he's naked' then mebbe curators and the system will force Artists to raise their game. And shut the door to the fake artists

'But Beuys said I'm an artist too..'

'No. you're not. Get a proper job'
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