Criptic Critic Conscience and Known for it

Monday, September 27, 2021

The Afghan Whigs - Algiers [Subtitulada al EspaƱol]


"Algiers"

Faith, the diamond in the chain
Still I was a slave, waiting to be saved
Dream, the body sleeps but I
Am not too proud to roam
On the back streets
It's oh, so simple when you know
You'll know this when it's time to go

Stray, and soon you'll leave behind
The loneliness you've sown, paradise leans
Scream, the body leaves the bone
To sit upon the throne
The battle waged for light

Dream, dream your sins away
Sin your dreams away
You're holding back, stop holding back
Unchain!

Say you'll love me tonight
Save your love for me tonight
And I feel you now
Lie awake and love drunk
I feel you now

Heavenly daemons outside my window
Sent here to see me outside this world
I call the shadow, you call the season
And that's solitary

Sunday, September 26, 2021

Bush Heckled By Iraq Veterans

The impossibility of reforming Tony bears some resemblance to the crisis plaguing museums and toxic philanthropy today, where a culture of bullying and exploitation belies programming of socially- and politically-engaged art.

 

"The impossibility of reforming Tony bears some resemblance to the crisis plaguing museums and toxic philanthropy today, where a culture of bullying and exploitation belies programming of socially- and politically-engaged art. Much in the same way that Dr. Melfi eventually found it impossible to reform Tony through therapy, many staff members in the world’s leading museums are coming to terms with the fact that they are funded and propped up by board members with connections to arms industries and other highly problematic and extractive industries, making reform nearly impossible — despite often grandiose exhibitions and statements proclamating otherwise. "

I feel the same way about working in Universities and Public Art Galleries, there's no point. - tw

"Kopel recalls how her efforts to unionize the New Museum coincided with an exhibition by Hans Haacke, known for his legendary works of institutional critique, including “Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Board of Trustees” (1974), a project that attempted to connect Guggenheim’s board members and their real estate interests, as well as his own efforts to unionize artists in the 1960s. However, according to Kopel, the New Museum instrumentalized socially- and politically-engaged art in an effort to conceal its own internal toxicity, much in the same way Tony did with Dr. Melfi. “Behind the New Museum’s veneer of social justice was rampant exploitation,” Kopel explained. "


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Tears for Fears - The Working Hour

Tuesday, September 7, 2021

My homage to ever young Billy Apple

 

My homage to ever young Billy Apple. I'll miss his lisping glib wit. He was wonderfully present and I know a comment he once made influenced me greatly, built up like a snow ball avalanche over the years. He was telling me his horror of Art Teachers, University Tutors thinking they were artists, being called artists. He was insisting that an artist was really only an artist if they were 100% committed to the role. Like him. This sounded extreme to me, un-compassionate, not realistic, but what I heard eventually was the way the job of an artist, is different than the roles that are used to maintain the industry of art. What is that difference? Well, I've spent the last decade trying to articulate the way public funding hides it's democratic responsibilities to collect capitalist rewards, the way Democratic funding is hidden by capitalists within the system. It's an area that I understand no one wants to go into as entry automatically terminates your access to the goody cart. But hey, I'm an artist, I have a role, I have my work to do, liked or disliked. eh 
 
I always enjoy seeing your work Billy, it's freshness and "new ground', your fearless willingness to commodity yourself as leadership, always irritate and inspire me to re articulate another direction for "new ground'. Nice work
 
Free Democratic Welfare from Capitalist Ecocide. Work less to consume less
 




  • An honest capitalist dealer I always thought

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  • Wells Tao
    I don't recall a single work or utterance of his use of the word Capitalist. Doing so when mean as I said before biting the hand that feeds, losing access and not being bought, by capitalists, who don't like to be seen, named, made to exist. So yeah, not my version of honest, but if you mean overt practitioner invisible in the mainstream, yeah sure.