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artiwu vol.2, DIGEST #13 (Feb 1, 2000)
TWO MESSAGES
1. Guide to Trendy Theory
2. presenting and marketing your art
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1.
Subject: Guide to Trendy Theory
Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2000 23:55:43 -0600
From: Matt Maldre <matt@spudart.org>
From the book: "Most Art Sucks : Five Years of Coagula"
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GUIDE TO TRENDY THEORY
With so many artists immersing themselves in trendy art theory
and so
many theories out there, you never know who exactly is booksmart
or
full of shit. This handy guide will hopefully help cut through
the
crap.
POSTSTRUCTURALISM: Language is everything but it means nothing
MARXISM: If you build a wall, they will stay.
DECONSTRUCTION: Pretentious description of the act of analyzing.
SEMIOTICS: Every picture tells a story.
DERRIDA: A smart Frenchman.
FOUCAULT: A smart Frenchman who didn't use a condom.
BAUDRILLARD: A smart Frenchman who likes Las Vegas.
LACAN: A smart Frenchman who hates Freud
FORMALISM: A boring new innovation is better than exciting rehash.
ESSENTIALISM: The space between your legs is more important than
the
one between your ears.
SOCIOLOGY: People live and ritualize in different ways and for
different reasons.
PSYCHOLOGY: If you caught your parents fucking, you're fucked.
MODERNISM: History ended not with a bang, but with a white cube.
POSTMODERNISM: Monochrome paintings are boring.
POP ART: Cartoons are never boring.
KITSCH: Not only are cartoons never boring, they're collectible!
SIGNIFIER: Adjective.
SIGNIFIED: Noun.
QUALITY: Taste.
ACTIVISM: Desire to relive the 1960s.
NIHILISM: Desire to relive the 1970s.
NARCISSISM: Desire of the talentless to the fact ignored.
HISTORICISM: Trust the art, not the artist.
ROMANTICISM: Trust the artist, not the bad painting they leave behind.
ELITISM: Trustfunded kids are the best judges of what matters.
HICKEYISM: Overweight chain-smokers are the best judges of beauty.
MULTICULTURALISM: Give me some of that wall space, white boy.
CLASSICISM: Give dead Greeks all of the shelf space.
SPIRITUALISM: Aesthetics without taste.
SUBLIME: The term atheists use for spirtualism.
CRONYISM: When successful people hire complete losers.
LATE CAPITALISM: What the sore losers insist on labeling the
current era.
CAPITALISM: The economic system that made the Cezanne CD-ROM possible.
YOUNG COLLECTORS: Do not exist.
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http://www.coagula.com
Coagula was founded in 1992 to cover the art scenes in Los
Angeles
and New York with an emphasis on revealing insider information.
Dubbed "the National Enquirer of the Art World" by the New York
Post,
Coagula stands alone among art publications in providing
iconoclastic, irreverent commentary and reportage on the New
York and
Los Angeles art scenes.
The book "Most Art Sucks : Five Years of Coagula" is available at:
http://www.artiwu.org/books
(or you can borrow it from me, just give me a call)
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2.
Subject: presenting and marketing your art
From: Matt Maldre <matt@spudart.org>
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2000 16:43:02 -0600
from the Chicago Artists' Coalition:
SPECIAL THEME SALON
Tues. Feb. 22, 6:30 p.m.
Gallery 2828, 2828 N. Milwaukee Ave; Chicago, IL. For
directions:
773.489-6617. Discussion led by Huw Thomas on presenting and
marketing your art. Bring slides or just yourself. Everyone is
invited.
http://www.caconline.org/cac/current.html
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