Reactions to criticism are cultural - here in Ireland you don't criticise. If you do you risk excommunication. But I have a feeling we're all moving on and what Tom's doing will help. Part of the difficulty I have with some art work is it feels easy - in the sense of lacking complexity. We're in the middle of profound changes in the way we think and act and attractive pictures don't necessarily help with that - I think artists should be writing more and telling us more, listening too, and doing what I see a growing group of artists do which is get nearer to the centre of debates about how we are changing. For the first time in my life there is no core group of people rethinking politics,morality, the process of producing and consuming - the artists I know who are doing that have a really valuable role.
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- haydn 6-09-2007 9:00 pm