Anodyne
Tuesday, February 05, 2008
 

Unsurprisingly, "Vancouver's Disgruntled Voices" have a blog.

As someone who has spent a not inconsiderable amount of time trying to "intervene in the lackluster state of arts criticism in Vancouver," the claim that "anonymity allows us to say the things that the institutional politics of art makes prohibitive" strikes me as embarassing and sad. It's depressing to think that anyone should ever put the demands of a career, tenure, exhibition, graduate fellowship, etc. ahead of speaking truth to power.

Vancouver 911's cowardly typo-ridden communiqué implies that art is just another kind of system, something to be gamed. It's a symptom of "the lackluster state of arts criticism in Vancouver," not a solution to the problem.
- posted by cjb @ 10:32 PM


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