Kruger Protest?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQ2FlqJ9v04

A protest against art that protest??

Why don´t you protest against sexism, war, enviornmental issues, politics, entertainment, etc.??

Ah, ok you just want to be "cool" and protest against an activist work.

I know, is cool to be "cool"... yaaack!

well it is interesting when a modestly talented (graphic) artist like Kruger gets the mainstream attention of museums and art institutions.
It all looks pretty suspect.

So what sould be the criteria to get the mainstream attencion of museums and art institutions?

At least Barbara Krugger in her work deals with serious subjects that concerns people (like gender and other political issues).

In this "egocentric" artistic production I see her work as one of the exceptions.

It also looks like careerism riding on the back of legitimate protest.
If these issues are real concerns to her, then she should intervene.
This is like talking at hats and getting paid for it.

Whether it is Kruger just paying lip service, or artists finding an easy opportunity to get themselves known - it all feels a little cheap really.

Cheap and about twenty five years late. Just as much music seems currently to be a pastiche of the worst cheese of the 1980s, so it would seem much artistic activity is

It's also sexist (why Kruger and not an equally deserving male artist?) and a bit pathetic (they could only reach the floor?).

Rather than feeding the oxygen of publicity to Kruger's picture post pastiche issue porn couldn't they just try Pissing In A River?

Krugger is feminist and uses her work, in form of publicity, as a protest against patriarcal imaginary. If people don´t like feminism is because they don´t acknowledge its goals, its their right. Bringing the discussion here is arguing gender equality on inequality. She has the right to express her self as a women.

There is one thing she isn´t for sure: an egocentric, self centered artist like the majority of those whose who work, or try to work, in art institutitions.

What people need is more ethical art production who makes people think about its values system, its culture. We see art production to animate and create spectactle in every galery, museum, or street corner.

But, can someone tell me why did those people protest against Krugger work?

>There is one thing she isn´t for sure: an egocentric,
>self centered artist like the majority of those whose
>who work, or try to work, in art institutitions.

You seem to know her well :-)

So if one does not agree with a female 'famous' artist suddenly one becomes an anti-feminst?

Although, the issue is not whether Kruger is a feminist or not.

I actually respect some of her early work. Although, I'd value her contribution more if she explored challenging the structures that she works within - may she does, I'm always happy to be educated more.

What I really dislike is shallow idiots who presume pissing is a form of 'art' protest - it's easy and gets one in the gaze of the spectacle quicker than actually doing anything interesting.

marc

I also read that they were protesting her involvement with the Whitney's GAP T-Shirts and GAP's involvement with suing sweatshops and other human rights violations.

But I don't know if any of that is true.

sorry, USING Sweatshops

They've done it again. This one is insame.

The Infinity Lab's "Piss Kruger"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5t8pUQbZhhU

And the pissing contest continues!!!

re:
>It's also sexist (why Kruger and not an equally deserving male artist?) and a bit pathetic (they could only reach the floor?).

That quote from Rob Myers is almost as ridiculous as the video they did to parody Fritz Haeg a while back.
Sexist? Because she was a female artist? That's like saying that I am sexist because I am attracted to women?

Ridiculous statement!

Fritz Haeg video:
http://theinfinitylab.com/fritz.html

It always insulting to have these things happen: insults, protests; I feel sorry for Barbara. Still, when damage is permanent, and costs thousands to repair, it's another story. Allan McCollum's five sculptures "Allegories" in Montpellier (cast in marble dust and pigmented polyester resin, sanded and polished) were vandalized and covered with oil-based silver paint by an art student in 2006, as an "art project." The statues were created in 2000, for the children of Montpellier. It will cost thousands to remove, as the polyester resin surfaces will be etched and damaged however the silver paint is removed, and the surfaces will need to be completely re-cast.

But what is most disgusting here is that the student's professor, Jeff Rian, at l'Ecole nationale superieure d'arts de Cergy-Pontoise (http://home.att.net/~artarchives/ensapc.fr/), published a promotion of the vandaliasm as an act of "admiration" for the artist, and glamorizes the action in order to creat journalistic drama in Purple Fashion Magazine, and the magazine's public web blog. See:

http://www.purple-diary.com/post/92236005/dear-allan-mccollum-a-very-interesting-art

The student (his name is Orion Giret) and Jeffrey Rian wrote the artist (McCollum) an insulting and sardonic letter, describing the vandalism as a "compliment" to his work, which improved it, claiming many people liked it "better" after the vandalism.

On top of that, when asked to comment, the well-known critic/philospopher Rene Denizot, who is the director of the school, claimed that the school has no responsibility, because the student did it on his own time, and professor Rian published his promotion on his own time; so it has nothing to do with the school!! Even weirder, the City of Montpellier, after discovering how costly the repairs would be, actually invented a story for the public that the artist (McCollum) said he didn't mind if the statues remained vandalized -- an absolute lie. So the statues have remained in their vandalized condition for well over three years.

Read these creepy articles in the French press:

http://home.att.net/~artarchives/artdolly/denizot.html
http://home.att.net/~artarchives/Montpellier-negligence1.html
http://home.att.net/~artarchives/Montpellier-negligence2.html

What is it with the French academic world? Do they think everything is "conceptual," and they are "above" considering financial or legal ramifications of anything? This is my impression. McCollum mentions in his response to the blog that he has rwritten dozens of po=eople in the culture establishmnet of France -- and no response from any official operson anywhere -- just responses from journalists looking for stories.

I'm French myself, born there, and I'm ashamed and disgusted.

For those interested, the Jeff Rian promotion of the vandalism on Purple Diary has been archived, at:

http://home.att.net/~artarchives/orion_giret/orion_giret.html

"Pissed off Artists" are pisted off with Kruger because they don´t have nothing decent to do or say.