[NetBehaviour] Crisis at the ICA: Ekow Eshun's Experiment in Deinstitutionalisation

[Curt Cloninger]

Hi Stuart,

I was just replying to Helen's question, which seemed addressed to 
practicing artists. The approach I propose may not be relevant or 
viable for curators, art critics, or reformers of arts institutions.

Following one's own art practice where it leads is not necessarily a 
simple approach. It might wind up being a lot more complicated than 
the  ICA situation currently being discussed, depending on the nature 
of one's practice -- the networks, entanglements, and scales it takes 
on.

Best,
Curt


>Hey curt,
>
>
>mmm. I reckon if we go by your criteria there would be no 
>furtherfield and all the other bits that go along with it, it's a 
>bit more complicated than that surely, which is why we are right now 
>discussing this stuff!
>
>Stuart
>
>
>
>
>>------- Original Message Follows -------
>>From: "Helen Pritchard" <hvpritchard at gmail.com>
>>To: <netbehaviour at netbehaviour.org>
>>Subject: Re: [NetBehaviour] Crisis at the ICA: Ekow Eshun's Experiment in
>>	Deinstitutionalisation
>>Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2010 19:07:09 +0000
>>
>>me too!
>>thankyou for your reply Curt -
>>Helen
>>On 11 Feb 2010, at 18:43, marc garrett wrote:
>>
>>>  I like that also...
>>>
>>>  marc
>>>>  Curt,
>>>>
>>>>  Beautiful!
>>>>
>>>>  Tony
>>>>
>>>>
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>>>>
>>>>
>>>>  On Feb 11, 2010, at 1:21 PM, Curt Cloninger wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>  Hi Helen (and all),
>>>>>
>>>>>  It seems to me that for an artist, the next tactical turn is to not
>>>>>  bother about the next tactical turn (don't bother to make it; don't
>>>>>  bother to refuse to make it). The next move is to follow the topics,
>>>>>  interests, and concepts of one's own practice, however long they may
>>>>>  take to develop, into whichever communities of shared interest they
>>>>>  may lead (on or off the popular radar). The less dependent one's art
>>>>>  is on any particular "tactical" approach ("institutional critique,"
>>>>>  "hacktivism," "relational aesthetics"), the more free it is to 
>>>>>  pursue
>>>>>  its own peculiar ends. Indeed, what fruitful, monstrous, utterly
>>>>>  irrelevant situations may emerge?
>>>>>
>>>>>  If I spend all my energy making art that seeks to avoid being
>>>>>  commodified by the spectacle, I'm always already being influenced by
>>>>>  the spectacle. It seems almost a requisite, then, to be willing to
>>>>>  move into art practices that don't necessarily involve "art"
>>>>>  (writing, design, urban planning, nursing, geology, advertising). It
>>>>>  is not a matter of outpacing institutions; it may be a matter of
>>>>>  using institutions to make moves that reverberate beyond 
>>>>>  institutions
>>>>>  (beyond museum systems, gallery systems, biennial systems, new media
>>>>>  festival systems, academic seminar systems, online art discussion
>>>>>  group systems). Then one begins addressing larger forces without
>>>>>  being constrained to act solely within the sandbox of "art," which 
>>>>>  is
>>>>>  itself always already modulated by larger forces.
>>>>>
>>>>>  Best,
>>>>>  Curt
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>    With participatory,conversational, collaborative, temporary, 
>>>>>>  fluid
>>>>>>  approaches all being appropriated so quickly into institutional
>>>>>>  policies and communication being commodified by social networking
>>>>>>  sites.. has really made me wonder what the next 'turn' will have 
>>>>>>  to be
>>>>>>  in artists tactics
>>>>>>
>>>>>>  What new approaches will emerge?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>  best
>>>>>>  Helen
>>>>>>  www.helenpritchard.info
>>>>>
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