[-empyre-] laws, outlaws & golden pirates

[joeser alvarez]

interfering and adding"
web's teory, liquid strategy = a quantic art
"I prefer curves
than straight
linear ratio
because the curve
is the best escape"
(me)


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "shu lea cheang" <shulea at earthlink.net>
To: "soft_skinned_space" <empyre at lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au>
Sent: Saturday, July 09, 2011 2:23 PM
Subject: Re: [-empyre-] laws, outlaws & golden pirates


> or maybe it would never be one single strategy?
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> sl
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>>The appropriation of radical practices by the mainstream is the first step
>>in normalisation. This process is key to assuring the success of 
>>capitalism.
>>We see it with experimental artistic practices being assimilated into the
>>art market. Many artists make work they intend to be beyond the reach of 
>>the
>>market - unsalable, uncollectable, literally shit... Nevertheless, it ends
>>up appropriated and commoditised, the subject of speculation.
>>
>>The question is how to short circuit that process? Vandalism might be part
>>of that - to take away more than you put in, to ensure whatever it is you 
>>do
>>its destructive tendency is greater than its creative. However, until now, 
>>I
>>cannot think of a single strategy that has worked. That doesn't mean there
>>isn't one...
>>
>>Best
>>
>>Simon
>>
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