[NetBehaviour] The Jeremy Bailey Interview on the Netbehaviour.

[Jeremy Bailey]

marc,

> Do you think that going through the re-evaluative process of
> justification has helped or hindered your practice, in regards to your
> creative-identity and approach to what your artwork could of been?

I think it's healthy to re-evaluate, at least it's healthy for me. It
keeps me in check and appreciative of those around me. It has also
heightened my critical awareness, not just of myself but of everything
in my vicinity, which I think is what every artist should do.
Ultimately if you're not critical of yourself, how on earth can you be
critical of others?

not sure what things could have been, I used to do a lot of
impressionist landscape paintings in high school. I guess I could be
in a rocky farmer's field right now, watching the sun set and
considering the beauty of the amber light catching the silhouette of a
windswept pine.

jeremy

On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 4:51 PM, marc garrett
<marc.garrett at furtherfield.org> wrote:
> Hi Jeremy,
>
>  >kickn' it up a notch with the Freud! great stuff.
>
> Yes, I may do this every now and then. Not necessarily with Freud, but
> with other references, just to open things up but only if it feels relevant.
>
>  >the truth is, I started art school in the 90s
>  >and all of my profs taught identity politics work.
>  >Actually my first EVER studio class was called
>  >women in art (I was the only man in the course).
>
>  >So starting out I always felt as though I wasn't
>  >allowed to make art. I wasn't a victim of any
>  >societal prejudices or discrimination, I was a
>  >very happy privileged white man with very few cares.
>
> With identity politics being such a primary influence, it sounds like
> your art education was a complex yet insightful beginning. I can imagine
> that in order to find a voice for your work, there has been much
> re-evaluation taking place.
>
>  >The type of work I make now, the type that casts
>  >me as an ignorant/naive modern artist playing with
>  >technology, was developed to try and create some
>  >justification for myself in an ocean of those more
>  >deserving than I.
>
> Do you think that going through the re-evaluative process of
> justification has helped or hindered your practice, in regards to your
> creative-identity and approach to what your artwork could of been?
>
> marc
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