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[Melinda Rackham]

Lynn
Yes I agree- I've seriously tried to stop making art through injury or  
circumstance several times and I just keep being drawn back into  some  
form of creative practice.
Faking documentation is an art in itself - quiet acceptable when  
presented as practice, but it gets slippery when, for example, one is  
assessing a PhD, and the process documentation has obviously been  
constructed to prove a point after the fact.
Yet we are not disturbed at all when books are written from screen  
plays after cinematic releases to capitalize/augment the experience.

best wishes

Melinda

Melinda Rackham
melinda at subtle.net






On 03/10/2010, at 4:18 AM, Lynn Hershman wrote:

> i think artists make art because they have no choice, really, and  
> faking parts of the documentation becomes authentic in this   
> corrective process.
> l
>
> On Oct 1, 2010, at 6:45 AM, gh hovagimyan wrote:
>
>> 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
>>
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