[-empyre-] The archive

[gh hovagimyan]

In the 1970's artists would do installations and performances and  
then makes drawings of them. The drawings were presented as concept  
or proposal drawing even though they were done after the work was  
made.  Actually I find that this is a traditional practice among  
artists. You start a painting or sculpture and then make drawings as  
you go along. It's a way of exploring the way you think.  I have  
always found that being an artists is directly contradictory to the  
bureaucratic systems that demand for any grant or exhibition  that  
you present a clear proposal of what you intend to do.  Most of the  
time an artist makes art because they are exploring and discovering  
new paths of perception. It's not about product.  This of course is  
the opposite of a commercial market that demands product.


On Sep 30, 2010, at 10:04 PM, Cynthia Beth Rubin wrote:

>  But for now I go with artists faking parts of the documentation to  
> tell the best story