[-empyre-] diapers art.

[G.H. Hovagimyan]

Artists make their art for their patrons. When applying for a grant  
one is applying for patronage. By the time you have developed a work  
and put together a work to send out for grants you have already  
created a conceptual art piece.  I'm planning on making a book of all  
the projects Artists Meeting and the individual artist have proposed  
but not been accepted by patrons.  The panels who choose the artists  
always have an agenda.  It's usually a luck of the draw scenario when  
it comes to getting a grant o residency.   I've been struggling  
against all the constraints on artists and roadblocks and problems to  
being an artist for years.   I think that the most creative of us all  
find a way to make art in spite of support system and patrons,  
markets, academies etc.. and so on..

On Mar 19, 2010, at 7:45 PM, christopher sullivan wrote:

> once during a lecture on how to write grants and artist proposals, a  
> student
> asked.."how do I get grants if I have not finished anything?" to  
> which I said,
> "well I hope you don't" The student wanted the feel of the artist  
> life, but no
> actual evaluation of quality. the simulacrum.

G.H. Hovagimyan
http://nujus.net/~gh
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http://turbulence.org/Works/plazaville