Yes - I completely agree Marc.Nathan Jones has done a service with this review,
although I'm not sure it's necessary to call Guattari , Deleuze and Berardi as
expert witnesses but to simply look and see what a nasty little bit of bullying
was going on here.Furthermore, the point for me is not whether the performance
was a "success" or "failure" but that it seems, at the most generous, a
category error to judge it in those terms -a bit like awarding points for the
grace with which someone might "perform" kicking a homeless person.For me
ethics trumps art. Sometimes that can be a complex and difficult thing to
disentangle, but not here. Pass the sick bag.
michael
From: marc garrett <[email protected]>
To: NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity
<[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2016 11:04 AM
Subject: Re: [NetBehaviour] review: Monetise Your Privilege with Schizo-Art
Bollocks
Hi Nathan,
Thanks for posting this review of yours on Netbehaviour.
All I can say right now (but will likely say more) is, Wow! This work sounds
not only tedious, but also decadent and shallow, and reliant on other people's
conditions of not being able to fight back, against a privileged form of
exploitation. Thanks Nathan - an article that needed to be written so the
emptiness in the mainstream art world is challenged.
Wishing you well.
marc
On 22 March 2016 at 10:22, nathan jones <[email protected]> wrote:
Monetise Your Privilege with Schizo-Art Bollocks: a review of Michael Portnoy
talk at a Liverpool Biennial event, 8th March 2016.
"Portnoy continually posed himself as wilfully blind to the oppressive
political structures which his work took part in, despite invoking the language
and names of critical thinkers who would be enlightening on such subjects — an
oversight I address
here."https://medium.com/@nathmercy/portnoy-complaint-982d9d970fcf#.c6npu8rhc
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