and yesterday i went to see a movie about matthew barney. i'm worried because i don't want to make art out of semen ever but it sort of seems like the thing to do.
Morality of good will
Disiniterested approval
Sublime / beautiful
Naked/ nude
Heternonimous/ bourgeois
Election sign of compromise
Value- art books paintings b/c they signal autonomy uniq or some kind of distance-
Yet-market subsumes
No market profit
Two possible chanells- political art/ youthness-
Traumatized- autonomous productive activity-
Tune in turn on drop out
Brogoius taste/
Arrays of taste and attention
Limited quantities/ market
Editing process and mediation-
Through a re account
Authenticity- reediting-
Genuwine
Situation you encounter b-4 taking it up.
" "Culture" is not something I want left solely in the hands of the professional class, the experts. I have found, unfortunately, that I often have to out-snob the snobs, those who share a deeply intellectual/theoretical fundamentalist bias against vernacular cultures, and who believe that specialized and highly refined forms of discourse/activity are the most valuable. Despite the rhetoric around the collapse of distinctions between high/low culture, it's clear to me that there really isn't a level playing field. In the art world it's fine to draw on low culture, to "elevate" it into the high art arena, but show me where in the pages of ArtForum anyone is writing about sidewalk art fairs rather than the global art market fairs. I wish there was a little more honesty around all of this - pop/vernacular culture is only legitimate if it is dressed up in the jargon or ironic posturing of the professional/academic art world. For instance, I was asked to be the judge in a pumpkin carving contest and I've been asked to give talks at universities, I view them as equal honors, the latter is acceptable for the vitae while the pumpkin carving thing is really just "slumming" it in the eyes of the academy. I find the divisions to be deeply entrenched, with biases pervasive despite all the lip service to more pluralistic visions. "