Criptic Critic Conscience and Known for it

Saturday, October 27, 2012

"Even you know the arts have been completely depoliticised. Once that cat's left the bag, the bag stays empty" Converstation with New Zealand Contemporary Art Collector Jim Barr. Makes me wonder what he thinks he's been buying?




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  • Laura Wells this gives me so many conflicting thoughts
  • Wells Tao Unfortunately : "3. It gives a big group of university funded artists something to not participate in (the art market) " is all the proof you need to see that Mary Barr & Jim Barr are still in the 60's.
  • Jim Barr "they are part of a closed system, the academic art world cozy little relationship. They do not have to be taken up by the market place and sold, they do not have to have a physical impact on the public, these guys already get paid and all they have to do is satisfy their boss."
  • Wells Tao Touche, but that's not the whole argument. Parakowhai anyone?
  • Wells Tao Peter Robinson anyone?
  • Wells Tao Anne Noble anyone?
  • Wells Tao Can I get a price for a public academic at your local art market? And the future looks like... what was that CNZ you want outcomes to look like businesses... no shit..
  • Jim Barr All those university based artists test themselves in the commercial sector, many others for various reasons don't
  • Wells Tao Test them selves, how quaint, I'd put it more like, take the money shut up and run.
  • Wells Tao Jim Barr , Are you seriously suggesting that the above artists , for example, promote their positions as paid academics to the public in a way that the public grasps that they are indeed employees of our esteemed public learning institutions?
  • Jim Barr That's a bit considering you started this thing mocking us for saying that the market was something that gave ".... a big group of university funded artists something to not participate in". I don't think it is a big secret that these people work in the universities. Besides who is this "public" that cares one way or the other? It's all the one percent which ever way you look at it, art or no art.
  • Jim Barr You can choose form "that's a bit rich" That's a bit slippery" or "That's a stretch"
  • Wells Tao "I don't think" about covers it. University artists are the market which is why they refuse to do the hard part of the job their paid for and take the flak for being public employees, not good for Boss. Not good for the Glamorous career veneer. Nice touch with the 1%, but your arse is showing
  • Jim Barr They are what they are state paid artists. Just like artists who takes CNZ grants, works for a public art museum or stands in line for any of the other state cash. They are all part of the State machine one way or the other. Will they bite the hand that feeds them...well maybe a nibble here and there.
  • Wells Tao yes yes let's down play the scale of the scam, the faud, the lies, he he he, all in good fun. Let's obscure the role having a salary to bank role your production plays, let's ignore the responsibilities attached to that salary, by tradition, by expectation, by law. They know not of what they do... as a heavy investor I can hear your defenses scrambling, but I'm sure you have nothing to worry about. Integrity, i can hear John Key say.. is just someones opinion.
  • Jim Barr Aw c'mon Tao, university staff haven't played critic and conscience for yonks, why would they start now. That would be like waiting for one of them to publicly comment on whether or not the Walters jury should see the work it nominates or not. University staff standing up to be counted on political issues - won't happen. Should it go back to the 60s (when they did)? Probably. Will it? Not a chance. Even you know the arts have been completely depoliticised. Once that cat's left the bag, the bag stays empty.
  • Wells Tao i make the point. What you tend to do with it is your own conscience.
  • Jim Barr Amen to that and have a good day
  • Wells Tao see ya

Thursday, October 18, 2012

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Thursday, October 4, 2012

MPFH (New Brutalist Edit) from HRRY by seht


What seems to be the game played thies days


  1. Doubling views in 4 hours, does that account for viral status or is it under performing?
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    • Wells Tao We should have comps of people racing, googbling up likes from easy trolling and stalking trends with friend bombs, We could place bets on them. And make some money out of nothing.
    • Wells Tao It would be like traversing a kind of primitive virtual reality landscape, with pin pricks for points of contact, the hovering horizon just extends from the eye ball like a thread pulled through the iris.

Wednesday, October 3, 2012

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Stable Economy by Permanent Poverty. The N.A.I.R.U and the New Zealand Economy



 Introduction

 I am interested in exploring poverty in New Zealand and its intimate connection to wage rates, unemployment and inflation. Over the last thirty years in New Zealand we have undergone transformative reforms in the economic and welfare sectors. The effect has created a significant increase in the gap between rich and poor, to where today ours is one of the largest in the world (Donaldson & Hubbard, 2011), suggesting that we don’t have welfare in New Zealand, but well-orchestrated poverty.  

Themes:

According to Bill Rosenberg, Economist and Director of Policy at the New Zealand Council of Trade Unions [CTU], wages rose on average according to the rate of productivity up until 1992. However, after 1992, productivity continued to rise at a steady rate, and wages on average did not (Rosenberg, 2010). If we look at data on the New Zealand Treasury website which shows us unemployment rates since 1986, we can see in 1992 the largest spike in unemployment in New Zealand history, with almost eleven percent of the population registered as unemployed (Parham & Roberts, 2004).

Could these two sets of data be related? According to Alister Barry in his documentary, In a Land of Plenty, they clearly are; “the reserve bank would manipulate interest rates so that at any given time one hundred to one hundred and fifty thousand kiwis would be unemployed....more unemployed people competing for jobs was bound to drive wages down” (Barry, 2002). A precedent was set that was then to become the norm.

But why would the government want New Zealanders to have a low wage? It is one way to control inflation, and maintain great wealth for the few (Barry). This is clearly demonstrated by the Non Accelerating Inflation Rate of Unemployment [NAIRU], which defines the lowest level of unemployment an economy can handle without causing rising inflation (Wikipedia.org, n.d.). New Zealand’s NAIRU is currently estimated to be five percent (Johnston, 2011), our current unemployment rate is 6.8% (Trading Economics, n.d.), and correspondingly our inflation is very low (Trading Economics). When unemployment was high in 1992, inflation dropped to its second lowest in New Zealand’s economic history (Trading Economics), thanks to the unemployed.

 Current concern:

 Right now New Zealanders have a new round of welfare reforms being implemented that continue the agenda set 1991. According to The New Zealand Herald, “anyone who turns down any offer of ‘suitable employment’ will have their benefit cancelled” (Collins, 2012). This is seen as a logical escalation of what was in place before; whereby the client was given “three chances” before they were cut. This reform continues to undermine the basic right of choice for a New Zealand citizen, as the Work and Income New Zealand [WINZ] case manager decides what is ‘suitable’ for the client.

Personal impact: 

 I was affected directly by the above scenario in 2010 as a person with part time employment (see www.wellsgroup.org) looking for full time work and receiving an unemployment benefit. After consultation with the Ministry of Social Development’s work brokers, where we discussed which were suitable and unsuitable jobs, I was immediately offered employment in the very role that I had identified as unsuitable due to my physical and mental health at the time. Despite there being many suitable jobs that I had expressed a direct enthusiasm for, I had no actual choice. Job ‘suitability’ was simply being used as a means to remove myself from their support. At the time I considered mine an isolated incident but having since worked alongside benefit rights advocates and meeting other cases, I understand this is an accepted procedure.

 Conclusion: 

 In short I had refused to participate in what is now the very essence of welfare; a tool for applying pressure on existing jobs by falsely creating the impression that there are numerous able applicants available for a position. That pressure of course is applied using real people living on the margins of society in poverty. People growing more and more desperate and becoming increasingly prepared to accept lower and lower standards of living. This is the accepted way to manage the economy and control inflation. As Suzanne Snively of the Reserve Bank Board of Directors from 1985-92 has said: “...it was a manageable thing for the reserve bank to use employment and unemployment as a means to get wages down, it was far easier than any other means to get inflation down, so they used it” (Barry).

References: 

 Barry, A. (2002) In a land of plenty clip. [Videofile] Retrieved from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcWl1rSVnYU 

Collins, S. (2012). ‘One strike’ rule for beneficiaries. Retrieved from The New Zealand Herald website: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/politics/news/article.cfm?c_id=280&objectid=10834762 

Donaldson, M., & Hubbard, A. (2011) Wealth gap divides nation. Retrieved from http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/4571384/Wealth-gap-divides-nation

Johnston, M. (2011) New Zealand’s NAIRU and youth unemployment. Retrieved from Econfix: http://econfix.wordpress.com/2011/07/06/new-zealands-nairu-and-youth-unemployment/ 

Parham, D., & Roberts, P. (2004) Productivity: performance, prospects and policies. Retrieved from New Zealand’s Treasury website: http://www.treasury.govt.nz/publications/research-policy/conferences-workshops/productivity

 Rosenberg, B. (2010) Real wages and productivity in New Zealand. Retrieved from Victoria University of Wellington website: www.victoria.ac.nz/.../M11_Rosenberg_LEW_final_2_.pdf

Trading Economics. (n.d.). New Zealand unemployment rate. Retrieved from http://www.tradingeconomics.com/new-zealand/unemployment-rate 
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Wikipedia.org. (n.d). NAIRU. Retrieved from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nairu






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