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Propagating beauty is alright by me. Good stories, touching on all the burning questions. It’s not super corrosive, but quite effective i think and the pictures are great. If i knew how to whistle on my keyboard, i’d squeal loudly.
xoxo
Anne
What a great concept! I really like this project and am also happy to have met you last Sunday. Isn’t it great to actually meet the people working outside the box?
When I saw your website, I flashed back to my comment that I wasn’t interested in institutional critique and more concerned with having a conversation, this might be the kind of work that I had in mind. Your work is clearly asking questions about power relations and thinking about how the institutions of history shapes our relationship to public space and memory in the present day. However, your mode of operation is open to serendipity and happenstance, and all the things that might happen as you come into contact with people who become curious about what you are doing as you paint the pictures ‘en plein aire’ and discover you are working from a catalog.
Ultimately my issue with institutional critique (at least in its historical phase) is that its idealist character often lead to foregone conclusions and (only in the most interesting work) were they inflected by the encounter with the institutions and the people who work there. In a sense my “Archives and the everyday” project was founded on seeing what could happen if we approached this issue from the point of view of having a conversation and not rendering a judgment (though judgments were of course peppered throughout the conversations…)
For some time now it has seemed to me that as useful as the critique of the ‘white cube’ was historically, by my generation it became more of a shorthand excuse to dismiss something without looking at it, or to willfully ignore the role of individuals in shaping the limits and possibilities of institutions themselves. Whereas the emotional heart of your project seems to lie somewhere in the region of the equation economy≠exchange and the encounters you have play this out in all kinds of different ways.
Best regards,
Trevor