An Artist’s Statement is an Artistic Statement
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any artistic statement written for the 21st century
would have to consist of a conglomerate of ‘copy and paste’ texts taken mostly from the internet and in part from a
few books which survived the information age of the internet. this, by
being kept safely tucked up in a blanket of dust on what was known in
the 20th century as the book shelf. continuing further, the texts excerpts
would be combined by being channeled into a quadraphonic mix consisting solely
of the below listed sources, be non grammatical and (of course) be ordered in
marchovian chain proportions:
channel one: something from cyberspace:
60% possibility
channel two: anything from a technical manuel: 25%
possibility
channel three: an uplifting excerpt from any pop-psychology
book,
good
or bad: 10% possibility
channel four:
an incomplete sentence, paragraph or even
symbol from an esoteric source
written in any of the many dead languages and/or just
name- dropping in english: 5% possibility
the results, able to be understood by anyone above the
age of puberty or any x-member of the hippy generation including any person
living/or having lived in california and/or having overdosed on: zap cola/
internet/ bazooka bubble gum/ technical handbooks (the overdose being for the
sake of recycling), might read something
like this:
“greetz $:-]
ekzlent. [you must be a high testosterone male da]
in any case i like you. $:-@ = may be low in testosterone
+ az a rezult he doez uat $:-L !z told by society. [njet] %-> read that life
forms in north amerika + north europa = typically low in testosterone - which
is why north amerika + north europa appear so very organized [ie. predisposed
to `humanitarian assistance`] %-< is
still researching the data mais __.... based on observation americans
[-neuyorkrz] are lowest in testosterone [phpz koca.kola is an excellent source
of estrogen +?] and readily [not] follow the herd++. shame on $:-].
vr!endl!. %->
p.s.maybe %->&$:-L like eating snails [ie @].
anyway it == animal abuse... slow animal abuse, but still == abuse!”
the above text would of course not be the expected
artist’s statement, due to the fact that the statement is an artistic one and
although it concerns the artist. if we question authority now, as it was
expected from us in the 1960s, then we should perhaps ask ourselves even today:
are we expecting the artist to make a clear academic statement or are we
allowing the artist to take the freedom to express themself artistically within
a statement designated for an institution?
in most cases the answer would be: “we are expecting a clear statement.”
the institution is therefore expecting the impossible, but i ask ‘it’ now compassionately: is that
institution also accepting the inevitable: an artistic statement and not an
artist’s statement? all might answer: hopefully.
joseph beuys stated that everyone is an artist and if
we interpret this as meaning that all individuals should find their artistic
centers, increase the energy-efficiency
level of their lives in order to better society, then we must conclude that mr.
beuys was asking for much too much. finally, life is not art anyway. and again
life is not art and one can prove this by clearly exercising the following: if
we we hit our heads on the proverbial 'windowpane' from the wizard of oz and
take an alice-in-wonderland type of trip back circa 1000 years b.c. in order to
read, in urtext, a short excerpt from
the i ching, a book so beloved by john cage that he turned it into an agnostic
religion, we can conclude that
creativity is the bond between heaven and earth and that only family can be a
true foundation on earth. alice: if is art is life than art is purely earthly
and is that which it can not ever is be, but only then bee.
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to conclude, after more than twenty years of activity
in many genre of the arts in many parts
of the world, i rest anchored in the lap of a small family, realizing that the
cheesier cat laughter of my young child truly surpasses any possible creative
endeavor encountered in a long and turbulent artistic journey, a bumper to
bumper journey in which personal freedom used to express the importance of the
individual and the necessity to find oneself through personal expression was
clearly never abandoned, but hardly ever welcomed by any institutional
trafficking. somewhere in a pop-psychology
book, it was stated that “life begins with forty” and i once read on a poster
board while traveling that “success is the last thing which one is given in
life ”. regardless of success or of age, one must fight relentlessly, not only
to continuing creating, as the i ching esoterically expresses it as uniting the
spiritual with the physical, but also simply to live, continually. ||:real(ly)
two embrace(d) life!:|| through art.
sincerely + $;-],