Being Captain Swing
I find it hard to care about art wank. Art matters. Ideas matters. However, the elitist cliques, feuds, politics and ingrained cultural snobbery of the clever-clever art crowd are just appalling to me. Pointless mystification, naff satire and deconstruction … all so ridiculous, so inane. The one thing I admire about certain pseudo-Situationists though is their construction and use of collective identities. Whether is as Autonomous Astronauts or Luther Blissett, the more our data is mined, the more multiple-use name makes sense as a strategy. In a Web 2.0 world, we might all benefit from being Captain Swing or Taliesin.
Labels: Art wank, Collective identities, Luther Blissett, Situationists
7 Comments:
Thank you. I'm so sick of this arts bullshit i can barely look at it anymore, which is a real shame. I tend to keep my roving eye aimed at architecture, something i can enjoy while just walking around without 8 million self-appointed assholes telling me what i should and shouldn't be seeing.
Is David Southwell a collective name?
No, not unless Tim Dedopulos is using it.
RF – Give me architecture and landscape any day.
Is English Hoodoo a collective name?
Yes and no. If you want a more detailed, useful answer you will just have to come along to the Coal Hole Club.
I use the name Zirelda because it was the name I chose for the internet. But if you go to my website you find my real name and my email is under my real name. I certainly don't try to hide anything. I don't see the point.
But then I'm far from elitist and pretty much non political. mmmm, maybe that's why I'm not networked?
You people in the Coal Hole Club scare me and I work with nuclear missiles.
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