AN ART-CRITICAL "BLACKLIST":

Anticipating the flood of critical writing that can be expected in the wake=

of Documenta11, <A HREF="http://www.sueddeutsche.de/aktuell/sz/artikel643=
.php">Suddeutsche Zeitung</A>'s Jorg Heiser and Holger Liebs have
compiled a list of ten expressions they would like to see banned from art=

criticism. "There's a lot to judge, praise, or criticize," claim Heiser and=

Liebs. "But art criticism has a problem. It's called: cliche overflow.
Banalization. Escape into theory." What's on the "blacklist"? "pattern of=

perception," "platform," "complexity," "precise," "poetic," "position,"
"obsession," "project," "presentation," and "myth." The art-critical rule o=
f
thumb appears to be: Mind your q's, and forget the p's.


http://artforum.com/news/week 0223#news2968


Max writes:

I find this a little freaky-nasty. More like a no-no list for art windies.=

Etiquette phrase-shifts like this are to me artworld horseshit. I.e. if yo=
u
don't use such words you're clean and conformable as a critic. You don't=

hear that many rules for artmaking though, which is why Six Rules is better=
.
Viz. Sinclair's "Das Jungle."

Fuck Newspeak! Use Nowspeak:

"pattern of perception" => "doggy poopsmear"

"platform" => "Millennium Hut"

"complexity" => "sub-event probability"

"precise" => "Toolmaster of Brainerd"

"poetic" => "blubbery"

"position" => "behavior"

"obsession" => "reiteration"

"project" => "network"

"presentation" => "fucking presentation"

and "myth" => "fairy tales"


And the net-art world is so smell-sensitive now!

My buddy Fil made me a hopper,

Max
http://albalux.com/g2k/pv/random.php (refresh for new)
www.salvaggio-museum.org

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