[spectre] The artist as administrator

Mon May 31 18:52:30 CEST 2004

Oh Sorry ! I apologize...
Aliette -> Alytus

Moustache is so great !!!!!*****

http://www.yesandnu.com/Alytus.html

I vote as mistake being myself

Thanks Clement

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "ctgr-pavu.com" <ctgr at free.fr>
To: "Aliette Guibert" <guibertc at criticalsecret.com>
Cc: <spectre at mikrolisten.de>
Sent: Monday, May 31, 2004 6:30 PM
Subject: Re: [spectre] The artist as administrator

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