writing online
Just published: "Open Play: The Work of Riccardo Iacono" at Axis, Open Frequency (link to full essay at the bottom of the page).
Also starting to collect other writings already published elsewhere online at as a tag on my del.icio.us bookmarks log. I'm trying out del.icio.us as a way of collecting bookmarks. Interesting facility for sharing and linking bookmarks with other people that I've only just found (thanks Sonia). A little random as they appear in the (whimsical) order that they were added, so tags are key.
Also starting to collect other writings already published elsewhere online at as a tag on my del.icio.us bookmarks log. I'm trying out del.icio.us as a way of collecting bookmarks. Interesting facility for sharing and linking bookmarks with other people that I've only just found (thanks Sonia). A little random as they appear in the (whimsical) order that they were added, so tags are key.
posted by Steven Ball at 12:45 am
4 Comments:
Nice bit of lyrical poetic text on Iacono, for some reason the ebb and flow of the words brought to mind
"The words we use tumble
All over your shoulder
Gravel hard and loose
There all night lying
With your dark horse hiding
Abhorring such extremes"
As to the axis policy of " Each year we work with a new panel of Curatorial Advisors - key curators, writers and artists - who search for the most significant artists working throughout the UK to nominate for the programme.
The programme aims to connect with the networks of emerging artists in all areas of the UK, and to provide a comprehensive resource for curators, critics and collectors researching these artists and more established artists."
Why do such organisations persisit in trying to impose order and place value in such a pompous way...?
I suspect that I should know the source of that quote, but can't place it.
As for the order and value issue, this notion of significance, like 'important' and 'relevant' is all a bit arbitrary and silly and 'comprehensive' is rather ambitious. Anyway I wrote it for Riccardo, I haven't joined the ranks of the 'key curators, writers and artists' they rely upon as gatekeepers.
It's from Brian Ferry, Roxy music, "For your pleasure"
("For Your Pleasure" was chosen as the 394th greatest album of all time by the editors of Rolling Stone magazine in Dec. 2003) - how this sort of rating can be done is somehow beyond my grasp..
:-)
Ah, thank you Sam! 349th Greatest?? That's shockingly low. What was the greatest? It's probably done on a poll of the readers or the writers, or perhaps both. Now that's democratic cultural gatekeeping in action!
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