
"There's a lot of paranoia in the arts."
Ronnie van Hout, interviewed by Kathryn Ryan last week on Radio New Zealand: audio available here for a limited time. (Absolutely one of the best interviews with an artist I've heard all year.)
Image: Ronnie van Hout, detail from 'I'm Not Here' installation 1999 including Taranaki 1992. Fibreglass, camera, monitor and framed colour photograph. Chartwell Collection, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki. Image from Auckland Art Gallery.
Oh yeah there is a lot of paranoia in the art world... This one reminds me of Nam June Paik's rather famous buddha.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.scu.edu.au/schools/edu/ICT/student_pages/sem2_2004/gcrawford/paik.html
Interesting reference Pareidoliac, thanks.
ReplyDeleteI think that any social system like the artworld where advancement is predicated as much by status as by merit (however you'd define that) automatically engenders anxiety in its participants. I guess it comes down though to whether the anxiety is justified and based on experience, or unwarranted and delusional. Might be a bit of both pocketed here and there in the artworld.