December 2011
7 posts
On Multiculturalism
ndnsurgency:
sofriel:
I see so many Canadians on Tumblr pronouncing how much more forward-thinking Canada is because its history of racism is simply different than that of the United States. Canada has not solved the racism problem nor has it even come close to doing so. We in the United States may be more open about talking about racism but because the discussion is slightly different in...
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VIDEO: OWS Occupies Movie-Set Replica Of Itself,... →
It’s straight out of a Don Delillo novel: A few hours after television producers set up a replica of Occupy Wall Street for the filming of a new episode of Law and Order Special Victims Unit, the real Occupy Wall Street announced plans to occupy the fake one. At 11:30 p.m. the call to occupy the set went out on Twitter. It’s located at nearby Foley Square and includes a replica of the OWS...
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Like Minded →
hydeordie:
It has been a while since the Turner prize really enraged me. Only yesterday I was praising it. This art prize often used to make my blood boil. Then in 2009, I was on the Turner jury: I didn’t annoy myself at all. I worked hard to make sure that every decision the jury made was one I was happy with – especially the winner, Richard Wright. Then, last year, there was a kind of OK,...
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“With Performa having recently concluded and in the wake of the Marina Abramovic...”
– Visual Art Performance vs. Contemporary Performance | Culturebot
Although this article is about dance– and theatre-based performance rather than music, this is what my work is about.
I think the writer has a bit of a blind spot that shows here:
From the artistic director I was told, “The...
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“15 years after it was coined, the term RA has perhaps saddled the art it...”
– The Fall of Relational Aesthetics,” Andrew Russeth for the New York Observer. (via jenlindblad)
About art that is sometimes good but associated with bad philosophy, with a touch of car-theft.