Re: [-empyre-] "national representation" at Documenta

[Kim Machan <kim@maap.org.au>]

Hello dear friends

This feels like a bit of an overreaction. The quesion was asked what  
artists from australia are in documenta and I think a fairly  
objective report was made... in good faith.
relax a bit - I didn't read any nationalistic sub text being wheeled  
out.
'Blackbyrd' asked the question along with some generalizations.  
Melinda put some dry info to be absorbed into those comments.

In days gone by documenta really used to be considered the 'olympics'  
of the art world - it wasn't nationalism ... it was the time... i  
recall they referred to 'internationalism' in those days ;-).

cheers
kim

On 18/07/2007, at 5:50 AM, Brian Holmes wrote:

> Deborah Kelly wrote:
> > I want to pipe up that Simryn Gill & Juan Davila are
> > not in Documenta as Australians: they're there as
> > artists. It's not the olympics- nor, indeed, the
> > Venice biennale, with its attendant, abject, standard
> > waving.
>
> Bravo, well said, and is there any chance they're not there as "art  
> professionals" either? Or have art and the business card become  
> synonymous, and basta cosi?
>
> best, BH
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