Comments on: What is the community? http://www.frictionarts.com/what-is-the-community/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=what-is-the-community Sun, 15 Jan 2012 22:03:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: admin http://www.frictionarts.com/what-is-the-community/comment-page-1/#comment-505 admin Tue, 05 Jan 2010 15:25:15 +0000 http://www.frictionarts.com/?p=533#comment-505 Hi I don't think I'm being entirely contradictory - I believe everyone should have the opportunity to join in and respond, I just think we have to be careful when allowing unqualified people to dictate policy in the name of inclusion. Being in the audience and making decisions about what culture should be are two very different things. It's a bit like putting aircraft safety in the hands of the passengers - I wouldn't fancy flying on that airline - would you?, but i would prefer one that took into account the needs and opinions of the passengers. I don't think it's an 'either or' situation (it rarely is), it's about balance (it often is). We need to keep a balance between giving people what they want, and what we believe they need. Ultimately it is in the hands of artists to make the sort of work they want to make, rather than the work they think they should make, outside of any cultural or audience considerations. When you start to make art for the audience, rather than yourself, you're only going to make shit art (perhaps that's for a future post). BTW, like most people in my experience, I contradict myself on an hourly basis,I've always believed in catmatism, rather than dogmatism ;-) Hi
I don’t think I’m being entirely contradictory – I believe everyone should have the opportunity to join in and respond, I just think we have to be careful when allowing unqualified people to dictate policy in the name of inclusion. Being in the audience and making decisions about what culture should be are two very different things. It’s a bit like putting aircraft safety in the hands of the passengers – I wouldn’t fancy flying on that airline – would you?, but i would prefer one that took into account the needs and opinions of the passengers. I don’t think it’s an ‘either or’ situation (it rarely is), it’s about balance (it often is). We need to keep a balance between giving people what they want, and what we believe they need. Ultimately it is in the hands of artists to make the sort of work they want to make, rather than the work they think they should make, outside of any cultural or audience considerations. When you start to make art for the audience, rather than yourself, you’re only going to make shit art (perhaps that’s for a future post).
BTW, like most people in my experience, I contradict myself on an hourly basis,I’ve always believed in catmatism, rather than dogmatism ;-)

]]> By: difazio http://www.frictionarts.com/what-is-the-community/comment-page-1/#comment-504 difazio Tue, 05 Jan 2010 15:04:52 +0000 http://www.frictionarts.com/?p=533#comment-504 Whilst this post gave me some food for thought, I was interested in the completely opposing points of view you demonstrate between the beginning of the post ("We’ve always taken the approach that people, even those with no contact with the arts, have a sophisticated understanding of conceptual work") and the end of the post ("Whilst it is great to ‘empower’ young people and involve them, it is going too far when artists with 20 or more years of experience have their proposals judged by teenage children") - either you believe people have the right to engage with the arts and create opinions on 'arts products' (for want of a better term), OR you want to uphold the older cliche of art only being for those who are informed, or have 'studied' it. So which is it? :) Whilst this post gave me some food for thought, I was interested in the completely opposing points of view you demonstrate between the beginning of the post (“We’ve always taken the approach that people, even those with no contact with the arts, have a sophisticated understanding of conceptual work”) and the end of the post (“Whilst it is great to ‘empower’ young people and involve them, it is going too far when artists with 20 or more years of experience have their proposals judged by teenage children”) – either you believe people have the right to engage with the arts and create opinions on ‘arts products’ (for want of a better term), OR you want to uphold the older cliche of art only being for those who are informed, or have ‘studied’ it.

So which is it? :)

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