Karoly Toth on Thu, 8 Apr 1999 06:18:08 +0200 |
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Syndicate: 0g rotterdam - who is Paul Treanor? - once again |
0g art lab rotterdam ___________________________ Dear list, once more about the ever misterious mr. Treanor'. for art lovers only! have fun! try it at least! Fragment from Paul Treanor's essay on the relation between art as such and the national states as such ((in Europe) my reading). the whole text is here: http://web.inter.nl.net/users/Paul.Treanor/art.destroy.html SHOULD ART BE DESTROYED? by P. T. (the qouote is his conclusion) <QUOTE> The only constant seems to be, that art serves privilege, the nation state, the powerful, the established, the unjust. In general, art serves the existing, which is exactly what is consistent with a self-perpetuating social structure. It is acceptable to oppose art in general, and specific national, regional, world-cultural, or civilisational art. However, there is no wide support for the break-up of the geo-cultural structure. The values of that structure itself are incompatible with its reform or abolition. It can however be limited in its effects. I therefore propose territorial separation of art. Formally, the best course would be to destroy existing art, then choose if the planet was to be art-provided or art-free. However, there is no prospect of any global agreement on this. Art will be in opposition to non-art, inherently. Specifically, I propose that the United States of America should become a zone of art. The existing cultural preference in the USA for collecting art, (especially from Europe) should be expanded into a prime function of state. Art should be transferred from Europe to the USA, beginning with the art listed in national heritage lists, and with recognised European heritage. I propose as an initial step, the transfer of the Mona Lisa, the best known European artwork, to the USA. The Mona Lisa is old, and heritage. It is better, that the past should burden the USA, than burden Europe. All artists, and those who wish to continue employment in the art sector, should be transferred to the USA. Any attempt at such a transfer would probably result in military intervention in support of art, perhaps by the USA. However, the nature of such a military intervention is outside the scope of this article. In any case, it is probably true that, given the fundamental opposition between art and its destruction, military conflict is inevitable in the long term. </QUOTE> lovely, isn't it? grtnx K.T. ______________________________ 0g art lab rotterdam contact: Karoly Toth email: zeroglab@freemail.c3.hu phone: +31 (0)10 240 03 90 URL: http://www1.tip.nl/~t046623 ------Syndicate mailinglist-------------------- information: http://www.v2.nl/east/ mail archive: http://www.v2.nl/mail/v2east/current/ to unsubscribe send a message to <syndicate-request@aec.at> with the message in the body: unsubscribe your@email.adress