Re: [-empyre-] thank you situated artists

[jason sweeney <dubhustler@va.com.au>]

melinda you have been a wonderful on-behalf of psuedo-facilitator!

you too have been in situ *with* the artists & that means more that 
kultural Kapital and any Location i know.

xx jase


On Thursday, June 17, 2004, at 11:30  AM, Melinda Rackham wrote:

> On behalf of this weeks facilitator, Alexie Glass, I'd like to thank 
> our
> enthusiastic guest artists who are surely exhausted from their week of
> performance, openings installations and endurance box inhabitation and 
> net
> connectivity.
>
> Their approach shares similarities while seemingly  emanating form
> different perspectives: subliminal writes in a back channel email "our 
> txt
> is sometimes an inversion of codified states. invoking the other, the
> elsewhere, the multiples that  co-exist in all states, in all places." 
>  At
> the same time  nat&ali 's strategy is to  insert themselves physically 
> into
> social pages and street parades.
>
> Situation is never clear cut for the artist, as today's communications
> networks invoke multiplicity, historically and politically entangled,
> flirting with  museum contexts, simultaneously there and not there.  As
> Chris Caines and Zina Kaye suggest the issues raised are for the 
> curator and
> the museum to resolve formal issues to  bring  experiental distributed 
> art
> to a general audience.
>
> And perhaps there is no answer to Adam Nash's opening question " so 
> what is
> the point of the audience being physically present at all? It is an
> inconvenient but interesting irony!"
>
> Melinda Rackham
>
>
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