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   [Date]: Sat, 13 Nov 1999 16:04:29 -0600
   [From]: Juan JosŽ D’az Infante <jdiazinfante@altamiracave.com>
     [To]: Cultural Exchange via Internet <forum1@hkw.kbx.de>
[Subject]: Re: [forum1] Re: Censorship

Pablo (I think I met you briefly at Felipe=B4s home in Mexico City at La
Cupula, at a lunch with L Monges and Vanesa Fernandez among others)
Hi, all

Once art plays in the politics arena=3D goodbye art. Our education, our
language comes from mass media context that includes propaganda and
political demagogy. Is the usage of one language and not the other
censorship?
The choosing of something by itself censors something else?
Are museums today the keepers of very sophisticated and elegant handicrafts?
Is a curator by definition an examiner, a guardian of art, a supervisor of
communication?
Is communication for the masses always necessarily vulgar? Or the perfect
democracy tends towards a constant loss of quality or maybe the focus should
be in the usage of power within a position within an institution.

We are addressing an artist as handicapped, and then a minority artist as
even more handicapped.
Does an artist need to be in a museum to be an artist?

We fail to distinguish between a good painter and an artist,today's culture
is all about marketing and a museum is part of that marketing scheme (the
perfect accomplice). In a very simple way to put it : The artist of today is
the one who knows how to write proposals for grants. Partially has to do
with having a financing engineer as strategist. Success has little to do
with quality. A store that carries Coke should also carry Pepsi?

"The environment as a processor of information is propaganda. Propaganda
ends where dialogue begins. You must talk to the media not to the
programmer. To talk to the programmer is like complaining to a hot dog
vendor at a ballpark about how badly your favorite team is playing."
Marshall Macluhan (The medium is the massage)

Juan


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Albert Einstein

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