POST BY PADDY JOHNSON
Boris Groys, Image: Artinfo
There are no less than 15 different ways to say “everyone is an artist”, and scholar Boris Groys probably hit on them all last night in his lecture at SVA. He’s an excellent speaker with an astonishing aptitude for turning a good phrase. The lecture itself covered a number of popular topics related to artistic identity: the deprofessionalization of art as a form of professionalization (see related writing by
Ed Halter,
Bruce High Quality Foundation, and
on more than one instance, myself), the idea that unlike earlier times in which only the upper class had time to produce art and text for millions who have no time to view them, now millions of people are creating work for a select few who have no time to view it, (
In the future everyone will be famous for 15 people — momus, 1991! thx @tommoody,
Clay Shirky on information overload) and of course, the age old question of whether fine art can compete with mass media (an ongoing discussion nearly everyone participates in on some level
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