Once upon a time artists mostly produced art. These days, however, artists are supposed to put on shows; curate shows; deal with media, with marketing, with galleries (and with gallerists!), with designing their own websites, with photographing their work, with not dressing like a slob, with paying rent for both their apartment and their studio; bu... More
Posts Tagged “Philosophy”
Diary of a Crazy Artist
01.25.2012 | ByFiled under: Projects/Series
Slavoj Žižek on Broadway after Speaking at Occupy Wall Street
10.12.2011 | ByFiled under: Field Notes
Pride honors that can’t be accepted
06.30.2010 | ByFiled under: Field Notes
I’m just so f’ing proud to be part of a community that Judith Butler is part of. And I’m really proud and happy that Butler decided to refuse to accept the Civil Courage Prize at Berlin’s Christopher Street Day celebration, and gave an emphatic and eloquent speech explaining why. Christopher Street Day is a European LGBTQ Pride event that happens in various cities throughout Europe. Butler’s objections were based on the commercialization of the event, but more importantly, on problems with racist discrimination faced especially by immigrant LGBT peoples. Here is part of Butler’s speech, and part of the organizers’ response to her.
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