What I responded to the most in dt81 was the vibrancy of the scene at the time, a lot of artists and musicians all working on a street level. I feel that today art and music have achieved an affected and sophisticated platform that its lost a lot of visceral impact. This is a massive generalization on my part, but I think a growing disconnect with artists and the people they are set to impact. Using the whitney biennial as a contemporary art thermometer, my opinion is that it was very interesting to look at, and funny, but not very impactful or meaningful. At most it was referential to past visual art movements, stylized pop cultural statements that could almost be taken seriously by a ad agency but too close to be concidered art. All this coming from an overly analitical artist and designer that prefers to listen to music. I have artsy friends that would probably nail me to the wall for my statements above and hurl names and works at me that could prove me wrong, but these are just my feelings and all that came out of seeing dt81. --- "Patrice L. Roussel" <proussel@ichips.intel.com> wrote:
On Wed, 31 Jul 2002 09:27:19 -0700 (PDT) jason tors wrote:
It really made me realize how intertwined the new york
up-and-coming
art scene was related to the music at that time. I do not feel that is not the case now. I think that contemporary art is having a hard time right now, anyone take a walk down 25th street in chelsea lately?
What do you mean by that?
Patrice.
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