30/5-NY16 discriminating patience
visited Columbia University again, find a Buchloh bk in the art history department staff publication display case, so he should be teaching here afterall? A bit nervous about meeting him.
Went there around noon, but again actually for the bkstores around it. getting up late these days, for I found out something even better than going out, and that is the cable tv. Just watched part of and then repeated the whole program after midnight, a special program on roadmovie, with also interview on Wim Wenders around his Texas Paris and his idols, like Denis Cooper. (I find the other day at a DVD store downstairs, The burden of dreams, which is a documentary on Werner Herzog, with even a section on him eating a shoe after losing the bet. I heard about it but don't know it was recorded too!)
Other than the CUNY arts program which includes some dances performance excerpts, then there is also this ovation channel, which have all the greats arts tv program on various artists, like Degas, Morley, and there is even a program in some channel I came upon which have real time art auction going on, selling Dali and Matisse etc. prints for few hundred dollars in one minute time! while an unknown painter fetches over thousands, some fraud?
Yesterday, went with HK to the CUNY Graduation Center for the Whitney Independent Program exhibition Image War, for the newspaper said there was a special radio performance by 5:30pm, but it turned out a false information and the gallery was closed, again HK decided to go to a Korean restaurant to have meal, he seemed feed up with his own cooking.
After his dinner,we headed to sculpture center, the film and the performance really bored me and HK, but he walked out, while I used this chance to observe this wierd situation, reflecting on all these questions that arose from the situation, how is this sound a sculpture? what are the people enjoying in such gathering? should we the society give chance for an self-endulging person/artist? How satisfying is the artist to play with some real time radio signal out of his control? HK told me the piece isn't even experimental. But what I thought just then, is that I learn more about myself in one aspect, and that is, I am more patience with things experimental then the market, with the DIY eccentric, then the money, success driven artists (they have someone else to taken care of anyway -- just as the name Sabrina coming up from time to time in this past days?).
Then we went to meet the other Indonesian ACC grantee, for one of them is hurrying back because of the quake. OK, as a gesture of concern about their situation, but it turns out they don't talk about this at all, they just want to have some fun chatting with one another. For me, I am sorry to say, this kind of activity is really a total waste of time. There is also this Columbia Master student on a Fulbright scholarship that say NY is the best in the world, well, gd god.
By the time we left the acfe, it is already past midnight, maybe one o'clock, but just when I arrived back to the appartment and turn on the tv, I find to the TV is going to play Robert Hughes TV special on Goya! There is just so much one could learn here, if they are really into arts, for arts sake!
Went there around noon, but again actually for the bkstores around it. getting up late these days, for I found out something even better than going out, and that is the cable tv. Just watched part of and then repeated the whole program after midnight, a special program on roadmovie, with also interview on Wim Wenders around his Texas Paris and his idols, like Denis Cooper. (I find the other day at a DVD store downstairs, The burden of dreams, which is a documentary on Werner Herzog, with even a section on him eating a shoe after losing the bet. I heard about it but don't know it was recorded too!)
Other than the CUNY arts program which includes some dances performance excerpts, then there is also this ovation channel, which have all the greats arts tv program on various artists, like Degas, Morley, and there is even a program in some channel I came upon which have real time art auction going on, selling Dali and Matisse etc. prints for few hundred dollars in one minute time! while an unknown painter fetches over thousands, some fraud?
Yesterday, went with HK to the CUNY Graduation Center for the Whitney Independent Program exhibition Image War, for the newspaper said there was a special radio performance by 5:30pm, but it turned out a false information and the gallery was closed, again HK decided to go to a Korean restaurant to have meal, he seemed feed up with his own cooking.
After his dinner,we headed to sculpture center, the film and the performance really bored me and HK, but he walked out, while I used this chance to observe this wierd situation, reflecting on all these questions that arose from the situation, how is this sound a sculpture? what are the people enjoying in such gathering? should we the society give chance for an self-endulging person/artist? How satisfying is the artist to play with some real time radio signal out of his control? HK told me the piece isn't even experimental. But what I thought just then, is that I learn more about myself in one aspect, and that is, I am more patience with things experimental then the market, with the DIY eccentric, then the money, success driven artists (they have someone else to taken care of anyway -- just as the name Sabrina coming up from time to time in this past days?).
Then we went to meet the other Indonesian ACC grantee, for one of them is hurrying back because of the quake. OK, as a gesture of concern about their situation, but it turns out they don't talk about this at all, they just want to have some fun chatting with one another. For me, I am sorry to say, this kind of activity is really a total waste of time. There is also this Columbia Master student on a Fulbright scholarship that say NY is the best in the world, well, gd god.
By the time we left the acfe, it is already past midnight, maybe one o'clock, but just when I arrived back to the appartment and turn on the tv, I find to the TV is going to play Robert Hughes TV special on Goya! There is just so much one could learn here, if they are really into arts, for arts sake!
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