[spectre] The artist as administrator

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well,
aliette, you should watch this video.
rare document about rare school.

moustache, moustache ...

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OG

Le lundi, 31 mai 2004, à 15:32 Europe/Paris, Aliette Guibert a écrit :

> I do not approve that: regarding the way of the actual word it could 
> be an
> introducing power and a hierarchy in art and between the artists.
>
> Administrate is administrate, curate is curate, could it be done with 
> talent
> or a singular sensibility, and could it be make by artists 
> sometimes... But
> it remains a question of ethics (on lobbies on net artists). You will 
> miss
> the critical mass.
>
> That is my first radical opinion but unstable position (it depends at
> last;-).
>
> Regards
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Andreas Broeckmann" <abroeck at transmediale.de>
> To: <spectre at mikrolisten.de>
> Sent: Monday, May 31, 2004 10:18 AM
> Subject: [spectre] The artist as administrator
>
>
>> Date:         Thu, 27 May 2004 23:33:39 +0100
>> From: anya lewin <anya.lewin at BTINTERNET.COM>
>> Subject: The artist as administrator
>> To: NEW-MEDIA-CURATING at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>>
>>
>>
>> Dear Crumb,
>>
>> This not exactly about new media curating but is about arts 
>> administration
>> which relates  . . . I hope you don't mind that I send this to the 
>> list.
>>
>> Anya
>>
>> I am forwarding a letter from my friend Redas Dirzys. He is an artist 
>> and
>> the head of an art school for 12 to 18 year olds in Lithuania. The 
>> school
> is
>> now under threat of closure under the false pretence of 
>> reorganization.
>>
>> In April of 2003 Steven Eastwood and I visited the school for 5 days. 
>> It
> was
>> an amazing experience and resulted in a 27 minute film called 
>> Different
>> Systems of Chaos. I have made a website where people can download the 
>> film
>> (its in 3 parts but you still need a fast connection) in case you are
>> interested in getting more of a feeling for the school. The address is
>> http://www.yesandnu.com/Alytus.html.
>>
>> Sincerely,
>> anya
>>
>> Here is the letter from Redas:
>>
>> Dear People of the World,
>>
>> My name is Redas Dirzys and I am an artist, and the head of the Art 
>> School
>> in the small town of Alytus of the small country Lithuania. First, I 
>> want
> to
>> announce worldwide more than just the fact of attempts of the local
>> authorities to close the art school. The major thing I want to call 
>> your
>> attention to is the license, arrogance and cynicism of the 
>> functionaries,
>> that you're noticing around yourself too, and the mechanisms they are
> using
>> to highlight their power. This is not a fear of losing my job; please
> don't
>> treat it as a desperate attempt to ask for a support of the school.
>>
>> The story is very simple: local authorities decided to close perfectly
>> functioning schools for visual arts and for musical education and to 
>> join
>> them to the training school for folk crafts. The whole unit they 
>> decided
> to
>> call the Artistic Training Center. The basic thing of the whole
>> reorganization is the appearance of the classical bureaucratic 
>> pyramid,
> all
>> under this mechanically made unit, with the main task properly to 
>> properly
>> administrate these bastard artists.
>>
>> The official motivations for this step is: better coordination of the
> joint
>> events of these three former institutions (common participation in 
>> city or
>> the state or international celebrations and projects) and better
> opportunity
>> to get bigger money from European foundations. The step is warranted 
>> on
> the
>> thesis that there is not such kind of infrastructure of the State Art
>> Schools in the countries of EU, even they are trying to prove that 
>> the EU
>> officials are insisting not to support this kind of schools from the 
>> state
>> money and the mostly funny argument is: there is not such a kind of
> schools
>> in Denmark (Danish educational system is the standard for the 
>> Lithuanian
>> educational system to be turned into. 10 years ago Danish experts 
>> were the
>> first to came to Lithuania with the money of European foundations to
> ensure
>> the way of Danish educational system to be taken as an example).
>>
>> The methods: the chief of city educational department issued the 
>> order for
>> the heads of the schools to prepare the documentation for the
> reorganization
>> of their institutions to look as they are asking for those 
>> themselves. I
>> gave everything to the press what already means in this former soviet
>> country that I have no chance to win that fight (anyway I've already
> refused
>> from the same amount of salary in a new planned Artistic Training 
>> Center).
>> So, I am turning all that activity to a biggest social performance I 
>> ever
>> did - to play the game till the end with the full spread of 
>> imagination.
>>
>> I am inviting everybody to react to the fact in the way they find out
>> convenient for themselves by writing the letters from abroad - to let 
>> the
>> authorities of the small city of the small country to be seen from a 
>> wider
>> prospective, or to propose them some much spectacular way to deal 
>> with the
>> artistic education. Anyway they are asking now for another alternative
> ways
>> what to do with the artistic education?
>>
>> Please use the following email addresses to send the letters: 
>> info at ana.lt
>> and saule at ana.lt . The addresses are from the local main daily of 
>> Alytus
>> city and for a whole south Lithuanian region Alytaus Naujienos (Alytus
> News)
>> - the most influential for the region who have also kindly agreed to 
>> work
>> for that.
>>
>> Sincerely,
>> Redas Dirzys
>> redas_dirzys at yahoo.com
>> The head of Alytus Art School (still)
>>
>>
>>
>>
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