Re: [-empyre-] speaking of film.. and global art industry

[Antoanetta Ivanova <admin@novamedia.com.au>]

this is very true Melinda
... it's one of the things it made me make up my mind about settling
in Australia pretty quickly... and choosing to work in new media which 
seamed
to me (at the time) free of historical, mostly Western European, 
baggage the visual
arts...  going to uni to study art though, brought much of it back on!

culture moves hundreds years slower then media and in this context
freedom is very relative... even an illusion.

Antoanetta

On 12/01/2005, at 8:55 PM, Melinda Rackham wrote:

speaking as an Australian i think there is a very  great  advantage to 
being
a relatively small and peripherally positioned blended culture. i see 
this
in terms of freedom from either the weight of European, Indian or 
eastern
art history and philosophy, or the mainstream expectations of the US 
global
culture machine;  and in terms  of the innovation and creative solutions
which can arise in an off centred  space...   this freedom  humility and
perspective gained form not thinking one is the centre of  universal 
culture
makes for great art practices, in whatever form they manifest.


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