[-empyre-] For whom is art "made"?

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That's the problem Megan... AArt is determinately-made for
art-institutions and the plethora of art-minyons and
acolytes who profit-from-it and
say-everything's-ok-as-long-as-they-get-paid... Basically,
if it's called Art it's really not. I'm sorry but you have
no viable future... maybe that's called 'AArt-History.'


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On Tue, 6 May 2008, Megan Debin wrote:

> First of all, thanks to Jennifer and to all for introducing me to an
> interesting community of discussion.  I would like to introduce a new topic
> about audience and the public in general.
>
> For a long while, I have, for reasons unbeknownst to me, been resistant to
> Jennifer's urges to check out errorista's work.  I hadn't quite figured out
> why I felt this resistance until today.  *Light bulb!** * I am afraid of not
> understanding.  I have an intense fear of being wrong – a truly
> anti-errorista sentiment – that what these artists do will be beyond my
> mental grasp.  As I have learned from errorista, there is no wrong
> answer.  There
> is right in the mistake.  All this self-doubt... and I'm in academia!
>
> So, this got me to thinking about an often-forgotten segment of our
> population: the general public.  The everyday person, when asked about their
> thoughts on art, usually thinks things such as, "I don't understand anything
> about art," or "Maybe if someone explained it to me, I might get it.  But
> probably not."  How have we lost touch with the audience?
>
> My questions to the empyre community are these: How does current art
> production relate to the general public, to the Joe Shmoe on the street?  How
> is the public *really *involved?   Shall we sit in our ivory towers and wax
> philosophical, using complicated terminology that most of the general public
> does not understand?  That *is* our job, right?  How can artists and critics
> reclaim a true relationship with the people?  Why do we have these
> discussions?  How does it relate to the larger population? And a critical
> one: For whom is art made?
>
> P.S. By the way, I checked out errorista.  It's witty, ingenious, all right
> and wrong all at once. I love it.
>
> --
> Megan Lorraine Debin
> M.A. Latin American Studies, UCLA
> meganldebin at gmail.com
>
> "Art is not a mirror held up to reality, but a hammer with which to shape
> it" -Vladimir Mayakovski
>
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Island 5.0 is Las Islas del Maiz of Nicaragua!
* PDF AND AUDIO FILES NOW AVAILABLE ONLINE *

Global Islands Project -- ongoing series of multi-media pdf-ebooks -- a pastoral,
pictorial and phonic elicitation of island parameters.

Your (Art)world is based on mutual relief at your common corruption.  Maybe some
cultures are based on even worse. But that wouldn't change the bad faith of it and
as years go by, you wake at night in terror of your whole life being an act of bad
faith, where everything is self-interest and nothing more, where every human
interaction is driven by a silent, even subconscious calculation of some ulterior
motive, to the point that a sea of bad faith has taken over your whole life, there's
no small island left from which you can even try to build a bridge of good faith,
because even that effort becomes suspect, even good faith is nothing but
self-interested, even altruism is nothing but solipsistic, even your professed
agonizing right here right now is nothing but a gesture, made to the conscience in
order to assure it that it exists.

Vientos del pueblo me llevan
Vientos del pueblo me arrastran
Me eparcen mi corazon
Ye me aventan la garganta

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Island 1.0 is Ambergris Caye, Belize
Island 2.0 is Koh Si Chang, Thailand
Island 3.0 is Lamu, Kenya
Island 4.0 is Narikel Jingira, Bangladesh
Island 5.0 is Isla del Maiz, Nicaragua

Global Islands Project:

Island 1.0 -> http://bbrace.net/islands/island1/island1.html
or http://bbrace.laughingsquid.net/islands/island1/island1.html
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 -- over 535 images and hour-long audiotrack -- 78mb -- (acrobat 6)

thanks-in-part to and/oar's examples I'm considering
stressing the audio portion of my Global Islands Project
with an augmented PDF book included on the CD(s)

I have the original recordings for all the mp3s online so
what I'd like is an editor/publisher/distributor to
orchestrate material for the CD from the online files...

http://www.archive.org/details/global_islands_project_island_1.0
http://www.archive.org/details/global_islands_project_island_2.0
http://www.archive.org/details/global_islands_project_island_3.0
http://www.archive.org/details/global_islands_project_island_4.0
http://www.archive.org/details/global_islands_project_island_5.0

Tiene el mundo ortra cara. Se acerca lo remoto
En una muchedumbre de bocas y de brazos.
Se ve la muerte como un mueble roto,
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Global Islands Project -- ongoing series of multi-media pdf-books -- a
pastoral, pictorial and phonic elicitation of island parameters...

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