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- Title: In Conversation
- Author : Art Monthly
- Release Date : January 01, 2008
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 42 KB
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Seth Siegelaub: Once upon a time, the art world was a pimple on the arse of capitalism; today it has become part of that system, it has absorbed its values, its excesses, the type of staging and presentation of art. With this change the lifestyle of the artist, too, has changed. Fundamentally, in my opinion, art has simply become another profession. This does not mean that you can earn a living all the time, but it has become possible. When I was active in the late 1960s in New York no artist thought of himself or herself as working in a profession. It was closer to a 'calling', something that they had a profound desire to do. This extended well beyond the so-called radical artists to anybody, anybody painting anything--even a picture of the Queen--was considered a bohemian, some kind of strange person. The image of the artist has evolved dramatically. Pavel Buchler: But isn't this part of the professionalisation of everything? In fact you can look at it the other way and say that the art world is the last remaining unregulated sector of capitalist enterprise. It is really the most ruthless business, there is no Off Art where you complain when you buy a rogue work of art, when you were misled by the title. Nobody defends the customer's rights. Nobody regulates the prices. You could say that it is the least professionalised zone of activity. Unlike many other fields of human endeavour where we can talk about professionalisation--whether it be law, medicine, science or education, which are thoroughly professional--there still is a sense as an artist that you are doing something that nobody asked you to do. At the very least you still don't need a licence as an artist. But there is that kind of convention, the convention of artistic licence where you are expected to perform in a certain way--as though you are not a professional. Artistic licence is a metaphor and it is founded on the idea that the freedom of the artist stands for and tests the freedom of the wider society.
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