[-empyre-] always negotiating

[gh hovagimyan]

All art is a negotiation of some sort.  Unless the artist is a hermit  
or an art Naif or Art Brut, art is made with an eye to context.  It's  
also about the patron.  For some artists the patron is the  
university. They make art that reflects the academic environment. For  
some artists the patron is the non-profit alternative spaces. Of  
course there is also the gallery/museum/market system which is a big  
patron.  All of these patronage systems are negotiated with during  
the process of art creation.  I had hoped that the internet would  
present a new system that was not of these existing systems. That was  
the case with the early internet but now it's been subsumed.  
Personally I'm always looking for a way around these systems. I know  
one must negotiate but each system has it's restraints which inhibit  
the free flowing creative process.  One of the principals of  
creativity is to engage these systems and enlarge their scope to  
include your own point of view and discourse.  That appears to be the  
negotiation of which you speak.
On Oct 11, 2010, at 1:09 PM, Renate Ferro wrote:

> Would you agree that there is always a negotiation in the process  
> of art making?