tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4131728244854401872.post6381016397522149088..comments2023-11-05T03:28:11.911-08:00Comments on Insurgent Theory: The Art Community as an Immanent Shipwreck.Ben Turkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04838599516482103220noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4131728244854401872.post-85184360512294101272008-12-02T23:37:00.000-08:002008-12-02T23:37:00.000-08:00After reading the report on cultural assets I feel...After reading the report on cultural assets I feel its pretty clear that the GMC is an enemy to culture. However not surprising - in the US alone there exists maybe only a handful of worthwhile public funded sculptures. Call it the "Jean-Cristo effect" a constant production of dazzlingly uninteresting eyesores that stand as a testament to a deep misunderstanding about culture. Personally, I like to call them aesthetic venerial diseases that only draw attention to the gross amounts of money that is not being spent on - oh I don't know - historical conservation. Milwaukee's GMC is no different than NYC's, LA's, or any other cities cultural funding worries. However, the belief that funding is the major obstacle hindering Milwaukee from blossoming a healthy intelligentsia might be a bit misguided. First of all Milwaukee does not levy the kind of commerce it takes to support a viable art market (get real). Second Milwaukee has no public, in so far as the city lacks the conditions for a "public". By this I mean Milwaukee lacks the urban infrastructure that facilitates dialogue amongst a wide cross-section of people. Most urban settings in the US have some form of truly public space whether it's city squares or subways etc (I might add that gallery night obviously is not sufficient enough to instigate provocative intellectual debate). If artists in this city want to draw attention to the superficiality of the GMC, perhaps they should consider doing what the Parisian Bohemians did in the 19th century - that is show their work outside the Salon de Paris under the title "The Official Rejects of The Paris Salon" (I should point out that the practice was not only accepted but encouraged by the salon) - Nevertheless perhaps Milwaukee artists should start proping their work up against the Bronz Fonz under the banner The Official Reject of the GMC...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4131728244854401872.post-80207054646225105582008-11-28T09:33:00.000-08:002008-11-28T09:33:00.000-08:00Sorry, people need to give me a reason to be polit...Sorry, people need to give me a reason to be polite or respect them, and these people have been disrespecting and jerking artists around for years. <BR/><BR/>i quote <A HREF="http://milwaukeeversus.blogspot.com/2008/11/todays-arts-scene-rant.html" REL="nofollow">Mike Brenner's comment</A>:<BR/>"the same people that told the founders of MARN we should all keep starving, cause what we were doing was SO damn important, and they would be there to help us when the time came... that there would be money to support our efforts... those poeple helped raise $260,000 for the Cultural Alliance in a matter of months and $85,000 for a Bronze Fonz."Ben Turkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04838599516482103220noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4131728244854401872.post-87657598570686843532008-11-27T20:55:00.000-08:002008-11-27T20:55:00.000-08:00"I'm one of the only people willing to publically ..."I'm one of the only people willing to publically mouth off at the Cultural Alliance (read my last post and the comments) because I don't want their money."<BR/><BR/>That would be all of your sophomoric, shallow, mindless, ill-mannered, invectives - right?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4131728244854401872.post-78262639840698022132008-11-26T15:42:00.000-08:002008-11-26T15:42:00.000-08:00Send me that report.Send me that report.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com