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We assume neoliberalism hollows everything out
We assume neoliberalism hollows everything out. So what used to have all sorts of meaning and implications now only means profits, or their potential. With only lip service paid to those former values, or let’s call them subjectivity. If this is happening, too, with painting, how does it work? What would it mean for there […]
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An engine of damaging social delusion
A word for the wonderful community of artists… If campaigns of this type continue [‘Toxic’ Allegations About Links to a Cyberweapons Company], the treasures of the art community—which are so fundamental to our society—risk an erosion of private support. That will be a great loss for everyone. Yana Peel, 2019
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The virtue of object art (where surface and symbol are coextensive, portable and visible) is that it can be moved into the funkiest, most secular places and not lose its recognition.
So there is always the possibility of confronting it unawares and responding to it while you are munching a peanut-butter sandwich or looking for the TV Guide, without getting into your art-watching suit. Sometimes, when this happens, you can have a kind of low-grade epiphany, the kind which would help Lew Archer solve a case, […]
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Obey
I think if you’re a painter in London now and you want to be serious you have to accept you’re working in a desert and you have to address the culture of your own work starting from zero. And you have to actively repel and be antagonistic all the time to these consoling illusions of […]
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The artworld versus ‘the outside’
It’s never a case of the artworld versus ‘the outside’, but the artworld versus hidden commitments. Always ask: who is their god? For the outsiders feeling trapped inside it’s usually the big Other or Oedipus or both.
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It’s very hard to feel at all confident about painting in your studio and thinking your doing something meaningful.
But if you paint unconfidently and know it’s probably not much use, and maybe doesn’t have much meaning, it’s probably more likely to lead to something meaningful despite yourself. Maybe the paintings are about sending out weird patterns and lunges at signs, while checking IRL conditions for the likelihood of being able to go on […]
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Fwd: Re: Bermondsey non profit studio group
The main driver for allowing resi around south bermondsey is need to pay for old kent road tube extension. No other way to raise funds for this than thru contributions to TfL via S106. This is interesting. It implies that new tube lines do not serve the people who already live in the areas, They […]
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The artworld versus ‘the outside’
It’s never a case of the art-world versus ‘the outside’, but the artworld versus hidden commitments. Always ask: who is their god? For the outsiders feeling trapped inside it’s usually the big Other or Oedipus or both.
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How Cambridge Analytica poisoned Kenya’s democracy,
It is infuriating to hear the company’s embattled and now-suspended CEO, Alexander Nix, flippantly admit that things “don’t necessarily need to be true as long as they are believed.” This is data neocolonialism, the same foreign interference Kenyatta pretended to be against. Larry Madawo, The Washington Post, 2018
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[Fwd: Hello / request]
Hi Richard I hope this finds you really well and enjoying the festive season. I wanted to ask a request – a lot of people have now asked me about the comment that was made at the bottom of Morgan Quaintance’s recent article on e-flux about Frieze and their off shore account. How can we […]
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The point of land art
The point of land art is not to become better adjusted to you environment. The point of land art is to remain consistently at odds with it
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“Community participation” does not refer to socio-political production, but to a mode of representation, and the aspirational logic of its value form.
The V22 Foundation is a private limited company[11] founded and operated by Tara Cranswick/V22 PLC.[12] When the acquisition of these buildings [public libraries] facilitated further Arts Council of England funding of £315,000 agreed in 2015, the offer was made to Kathleen Cranswick (the same person), as Director of the V22 Foundation. On the 30th of September […]