If you are an artist, to sit back detached and 'position' your work within some kind of larger cultural trend might just be the death of your work. If you are a participatory art-writer then staying in the moment is important, but illuminating the threads of a larger relevance to a work of art is part of the job. If you are someone who calls yourself a critic, then you'd bloody well better do some abstract evaluation of your practice once in a while.
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- sally mckay 8-22-2004 6:09 pm