Re: Re: [-empyre-] race, net-art, strategy

[<aka.leafa@xtra.co.nz>]

Yeah Ian 
that would be great to get some examples.

> 
> From: Katherine Moriwaki <kaki@kakirine.com>
> Date: 2003/08/01 Fri AM 01:55:59 GMT+12:00
> To: soft_skinned_space <empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au>
> Subject: Re: [-empyre-] race, net-art, strategy
> 
> Dear list, all:
> 
> At 16:18 31/07/2003 +1000, Ian S. wrote:
> 
> >Not "feel positively", I meant respond to positively in an evaluative sense.
> >Difficult is often most challenging and therefore most rewarding.
> 
> Ian, I'm not sure what you mean by "respond positively in an evaluative 
> sense."?? Could you explain a bit more?
> 
> >When I see this darker, unreasoning part of myself represented within an
> >artwork I recoil. This is a successful work, in my evaluation. On the other
> >hand, when I see this complex relationship with my own identity represented
> >in simplistic and bombastic terms, I do not respond positively to the work
> >and I get the sense that it does not have much to offer me.
> 
> Could you provide an example of this? I guess am just really confused and 
> curious about how and when this occurs to white men, since it seems to 
> happen to me (and I am guessing many other people who are non-white) more 
> often than I can count in literature, books, tv, media, and art.
> 
> -k
> 
> 
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