My contribution to the book Decentre: concerning artist-run culture/a propos de centres d’artistes published by YYZ Books, and which launches tonight in Toronto.
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Artist-run centres developed to exhibit what at the time was unmarketable, and in so doing became the elitist arbiters of a contemporary taste, based on a reputation for taking risks and initial support [...]
Monthly Archives: June 2008
Decentre: concerning artist-run culture
27 June 2008 – 11:41 am
No time for both
26 June 2008 – 2:31 pm
JA: Do you want to add something about the art scene?
RR: I have this vague sense that the art world has become so isolated from everything else in the universe that you’re either in it or in the rest of the world — nobody has time to be in both.
-Josefina Ayerza interviewed Richard Rorty in [...]
What it took me 30 years to learn
26 June 2008 – 11:29 am
Moving parts in rubbing contact require lubrication to avoid excessive wear. Honorifics and formal politeness provide lubrication where people rub together. Often the very young, the untraveled, the naive, the unsophisticated deplore these formalities as “empty,” “meaningless,” or “dishonest,” and scorn to use them. No matter how “pure” their motives, they thereby throw sand into [...]
Mammalian Diving Reflex
24 June 2008 – 2:17 pm
(From Goodreads 08w26:1)
I saw Darren O’Donnell at the Toronto Free Gallery opening last Thursday night and he told me he’d been engaged in the past week with an online debate about the validity of his work with Mammalian Diving Reflex, a debate initiated by Gabriel Moser and picked up on the Sally McKay’/Lorna Mills blog.
I’ve [...]
Breeding
19 June 2008 – 4:49 pm
Believing in Creationism conveys a reproductive advantage in attracting other Creationists.
Thus, by not breeding with those who believe in Evolution, Creationists are proving the theorem of those they oppose.
Art in the Age of Terror panel, June 2008
14 June 2008 – 9:34 pm
ILLUMINATIONS Art in the Age of Terror
What does it mean to be an artist in the age of terror?
In our own age, as the theatre of war intrudes into our living rooms, as war increasingly becomes a spectacular media event, has the role of art vis à vis war undergone a radical change? Neil Murray, [...]
Letter to my MP
12 June 2008 – 2:15 pm
Opposition to Copyright reform
from: Timothy Comeau
to: Peggy Nash
cc: Jim Prentice, Prime Minister of Canada, Stephene Dion, Jack Layton
date: Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 2:10 PM
subject: Opposition to Copyright reform
While I respect the Government’s desire to update copyright
legislation to be fair to all parties within the 21st Century’s
digital environment, I do not feel that the legislation introduced
today is close [...]