There are truly too many to choose from but it might just be! I'm sure when the "country" record comes out in May I won't be able to stop myself from talking about it somehow . . .
I appreciate you taking the time to document these things and share your thoughts. I especially appreciate the photos you include, since I am rarely in a position to see in person any of the shows you discuss.
Your point on ambiguity is well stated. What excites us is so often the space of questioning that juxtaposition and mutlipolar discourses make available within us. Sometimes great art is pointing to things that appear to stand apart, challenging us to connect them, and sometimes great art is prying apart things, asking us to experience the space between them or do something about it. Art as artifact of a struggle, an invitation from the artist to engage with that specific struggle on your own terms, generating unpredictable friction in each viewer.
Thanks so much for writing. That's all very well said--art can function in lots of ways, but it does seem like those are two of the most fundamental (or best) ways.
I'm glad that I can help connect you, too, with what's going on mostly in NYC. I always wish I could travel more to make sure I don't get tunnel vision. I'll definitely be thinking of you the next time I'm taking some of my mediocre photos in a gallery!
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There are truly too many to choose from but it might just be! I'm sure when the "country" record comes out in May I won't be able to stop myself from talking about it somehow . . .
I appreciate you taking the time to document these things and share your thoughts. I especially appreciate the photos you include, since I am rarely in a position to see in person any of the shows you discuss.
Your point on ambiguity is well stated. What excites us is so often the space of questioning that juxtaposition and mutlipolar discourses make available within us. Sometimes great art is pointing to things that appear to stand apart, challenging us to connect them, and sometimes great art is prying apart things, asking us to experience the space between them or do something about it. Art as artifact of a struggle, an invitation from the artist to engage with that specific struggle on your own terms, generating unpredictable friction in each viewer.
Thanks so much for writing. That's all very well said--art can function in lots of ways, but it does seem like those are two of the most fundamental (or best) ways.
I'm glad that I can help connect you, too, with what's going on mostly in NYC. I always wish I could travel more to make sure I don't get tunnel vision. I'll definitely be thinking of you the next time I'm taking some of my mediocre photos in a gallery!