Commissions & understanding.

Without going into detail, I always find it amazing how difficult the
construction of meaning/understanding is. In my experience, it seems
like even though one may have had the idea explained hundreds of times,
and you may know the person for years, when it comes back to deriving
some meaning from what's trying to be communicated, the result is often
really imperfect.

It's pretty asounding, IMO.

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—–Original Message—–
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf
Of Ryan Griffis
Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2006 6:01 PM
To: rhizome
Subject: RHIZOME_RAW: Re: Commissions

On Apr 27, 2006, at 4:39 PM, curt cloninger wrote:
>
> Not the entire art world. And not grant programs (most of them) where

> previous work samples are required and integral. Just a granting
> scheme where you get a thumbs up or thumbs down based on a paragraph.

> And not "conceptual artists who use critical theory." Just
> "conceptual art projects."

but there are work samples required for these proposals, right? i
thought there was anyway… up to 5 or something if i remember
correctly. are people just not looking at them? if someone doesn't
include work samples, that says something in and of itself.
i guess this is why i'm confused about this line of critique… i don't
see how the work samples are disadvantaged here.
or are we talking about a hypothetical situation?
>
>> if you want to make work that functions in the "market" (i.e.
>> "attention
>> economy") well, you shouldn't need grants for that. Your work is
>> either
>> "successful" or it's not, based on its sheer ability to grab people,
>> or
>> not.
>
> True dat. And to make outsider art, all you need are some broken
> shards of glass and/or some rusty bicycle parts.

i thought it was driftwood and a buck knife :)
ryan

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