Thanks, Chris. The field is limited in a way to practicing artists who post regularly. I've avoided the "drawing a day" or "song a day" commitment because (i) I never make New Years' resolutions either, (ii) other things pop up that I want to talk about that chip away at the drawing time, and (iii) I don't work well in series and I don't trust my self-evaluation. In other words, I could do 7 drawings a week but it might take me a month to decide which are "keepers" and then I'm stuck with all the published non-keepers.
BLOG is to some extent taking the art world at its word that Duchampianism is the only valid ism. Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe talked about how Artforum could confer art status on any topic, and it's not even an artist, just a magazine read by artists. (He didn't mention the mag by name but we all knew who he was talking about.)
I thought about making a joke that any artists I discuss during BLOG would be entitled to list the gallery on their resume and if the work is acquired they can say they're collected. How far does the "aura" extend?
I had a curator over a while back who saw the same studio full of artwork you did but he wanted me to write an essay for him and not be in his show so he said "but your blog is your art." I thought that was BS so I'm parodying the sentiment a bit here. My blog is not "my art" in the sense of being my only art but I like it as a catchall for doing a lot of things.
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BLOG is to some extent taking the art world at its word that Duchampianism is the only valid ism. Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe talked about how Artforum could confer art status on any topic, and it's not even an artist, just a magazine read by artists. (He didn't mention the mag by name but we all knew who he was talking about.)
I thought about making a joke that any artists I discuss during BLOG would be entitled to list the gallery on their resume and if the work is acquired they can say they're collected. How far does the "aura" extend?
I had a curator over a while back who saw the same studio full of artwork you did but he wanted me to write an essay for him and not be in his show so he said "but your blog is your art." I thought that was BS so I'm parodying the sentiment a bit here. My blog is not "my art" in the sense of being my only art but I like it as a catchall for doing a lot of things.
- tom moody 5-19-2007 8:51 pm