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Friday 25 March 2011

Artistic Motivation - Misinformed

The Dissertation Series second cycle is in Spain at The Curve of Destiny Exhibition a poets response to artwork by by Jesûs Mari Lazkano, Guggenheim Museum - Bilbao, March 2007

Misinformed

Why do we need to explain, why do we need to intellectualise? Why do we need to say more about the art, than does the art itself? Does then the explanation become the significant part? Does the explanation, well presented, become the main event?

On the big screen
In the side stream viewing booth
The power of the moving image
The force of multi-media
A darkened space, a mood
A voice with timbre & only
A chosen number to view

No book
No guide
No historical perspective
Outwith of the one performed
For the indiscriminately invited patrons

Understand it my way seems to be the message
Or do not begin to imagine that you understand it anyhow at all