some thoughts

Hey everybody. Is someone going to bring a laptop (if FA4 has internet) or print out our posts to discuss next Tuesday?

It seems like we all missed a great panel discussion at CAA this week on just the kind of stuff that keeps coming up on this blog:

"Mitigating the Obvious Culture and the Search for Broader Humanity: Bridging the Gap Between Us and Them"

http://roski.usc.edu/news/faculty-joshua-decter-and-adju.html

I'm not sure what ended up being talked about there, but I think the summary in the above link is relevant to our discussion of audience.

Today I was thinking about the dichotomies that we set up or are set up by others in the contemporary understanding and discourse of art: public/private, personal/community-based, political/reactionary, status-quo/oppositional, technological/craft-based, skilled/de-skilled, etc. Is there somehow an art practice can navigate the space between these types of categories?

mw