Hello folks...

Just following up on a few things from this Thurday's meeting :-)

The article I mentioned about an amateur attitude to art making is by Simon Leys in The Angel & The Octopus. It is called An Amateur Artist: Fairweather in Chinese perspective. I tried to work out how to upload the .pdf but no joy. It is definitely worth hunting down.

The other thing I wanted to mention was the idea for a Silent Response to people's work. The idea would be to respond to someone's work silently by writing down any feelings / criticism / ideas that the work produces for you. This feedback would be given to the artist at the end of the session. The responses remain anonymous and are intended to help the artist see their practice through the eyes of another. It's also an opportunity to respond to someone's work without having to talk (and in that sense it is freer) and an opportunity to engage with someone's work in silence. It would also be a good way to develop a way of writing if that's what you're interested in. The idea is open... everything from criticism to poetry is valid and obviously if you're partaking in giving the feedback, there'd be an opportunity to receive feedback as well.

If you're interested come an talk to me and we can arrange an initial session in someone's studio!

Oh and there was that idea by Deleuze about being the artist being the first audience member of their work... that the artist calls an audience into being.

The quote I was thinking of is:

"for, if the people are missing, if they are breaking up into minorities, it is I who am the first of all a people, the people of my atoms"

Simon O'Sullivan has written an article called Notes Towards a Minor Art Practice based on Deleuze's Kafka: Towards a Minor Literature.

Here's the link www.simonosullivan.net/articles/minor-literature.pdf

Deleuze's definition of majority/minority in interesting:

‘the difference between minorities and majorities isn’t their size. A minority may be bigger than a majority. What defines majority is a model you have to conform to ... A minority, on the other hand, has no model, it’s a becoming, a process’

Stephen Zepke has also written some good stuff on Deleuze and Art and there's a few of his books in the library... there's a new book that's just been ordered called Deleuze and Contemporary Art.


Ok that's it for me! Have a great couple of weeks :-)
craig