[spectre] The Juxtaposium / open letter to event organisers

[John Hopkins]

> The examples that Andreas and Darko gave, no matter how great they sound, do not
> offer per se what we had in mind: a format that would be reflective and
> interesting and function well in a public setting. We did not want to invite
> artists to express their own insecurities, nor did we want to make the
> presentation an artwork in itself. We did envision a public situation where
> artist reflect on other artists work (and theorist the like) with respect, but
> especially with an unexpected outcome and a new angle that everybody could win
> and grow from. We envisioned a very serious contemplation of artist on each

Once you begin to use overly structured things like "artist" "work" "artwork" 
and such, you might as well try to toss all that pre-tension out and just 
facilitate open (non-thematic) encounter.  If done auspiciously, this always has 
an energized outcome, at least I've found that to be the case in my own 
practice.  It is precisely the pre-tension which distorts the potential of 
encounter.

cheers,
jh