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   [Date]: Thu, 4 Nov 1999 17:32:37 +1030
   [From]: ANAT-Anne Robertson <anne@anat.org.au>
     [To]: Cultural Exchange via Internet <forum1@hkw.kbx.de>
[Subject]: Re: [forum1] Re: discussion about sensation - art & politics

Dear Ami,

>Hi,
>You wrote:
>"You condemn art which you have never seen "
>I did not see that I condemned any art - did I ?
>But of course - most of anything is lousy - that is why the good
>stuff gets awards. It is much easier to produce bad art than good.
>(likewise bad anything).

It appears you are saying that the default of all art practice is "bad"...

I have never known the application of binary terminology to be anything
more than reductive, and I do not see much benefit to reductiveness in
relation to the complexity of the environment from which art work arises.

To believe that an art work is "good" only when it has received awards, in
itself, blindly overlooks the politics at play in the process of assessing
works for awards..

I thought art was about engaging an audience, not about awards... ie: that
it's worth lies outside the domain of itself....???

Anne

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