Comments for Culturebot http://www.culturebot.net All the culture your circuits can handle Mon, 14 May 2012 20:53:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Comment on Can Un-Licensed Therapy Be Performance Art? Can Prostitution? by What Performance Art Can Learn Contemporary Performance Practices | Culturebot http://www.culturebot.net/2012/05/13501/can-un-licensed-therapy-be-performance-art-can-prostitution/comment-page-1/#comment-60488 What Performance Art Can Learn Contemporary Performance Practices | Culturebot Mon, 14 May 2012 20:53:57 +0000 http://www.culturebot.net/?p=13501#comment-60488 [...] as I argued recently: By and large, such work [performance art] insists upon an understanding or interpretation of its [...] [...] as I argued recently: By and large, such work [performance art] insists upon an understanding or interpretation of its [...]

]]> Comment on Visual Art Performance vs. Contemporary Performance by What Performance Art Can Learn Contemporary Performance Practices | Culturebot http://www.culturebot.net/2011/11/11663/visual-art-performance-vs-contemporary-performance/comment-page-1/#comment-60487 What Performance Art Can Learn Contemporary Performance Practices | Culturebot Mon, 14 May 2012 20:51:10 +0000 http://culturebot.net/?p=11663#comment-60487 [...] Culturebot in our exploration of the convergence of performance practices and discourse. First, as Andy argued some months ago, when he wrote: It is as if when visual artists and curators “discover performance” they think [...] [...] Culturebot in our exploration of the convergence of performance practices and discourse. First, as Andy argued some months ago, when he wrote: It is as if when visual artists and curators “discover performance” they think [...]

]]> Comment on Culturebot’s January Festival Resources Page by What Performance Art Can Learn Contemporary Performance Practices | Culturebot http://www.culturebot.net/2012/01/12121/culturebots-january-festival-resources-page/comment-page-1/#comment-60486 What Performance Art Can Learn Contemporary Performance Practices | Culturebot Mon, 14 May 2012 20:49:22 +0000 http://culturebot.net/?p=12121#comment-60486 [...] only had the bandwidth to touch on it briefly at the time, but I think that, by contrasting it with the reductive principles at play in these discussions of [...] [...] only had the bandwidth to touch on it briefly at the time, but I think that, by contrasting it with the reductive principles at play in these discussions of [...]

]]> Comment on Can Un-Licensed Therapy Be Performance Art? Can Prostitution? by R Lewis http://www.culturebot.net/2012/05/13501/can-un-licensed-therapy-be-performance-art-can-prostitution/comment-page-1/#comment-60395 R Lewis Fri, 11 May 2012 15:42:53 +0000 http://www.culturebot.net/?p=13501#comment-60395 “Making money is art and working is art, and good business is the best art.” -Andy Warhol just saw this quote on another blog and thought it seemed appropriate to this discussion. “Making money is art and working is art, and good business is the best art.”
-Andy Warhol

just saw this quote on another blog and thought it seemed appropriate to this discussion.

]]> Comment on Can Un-Licensed Therapy Be Performance Art? Can Prostitution? by Jamesrudy http://www.culturebot.net/2012/05/13501/can-un-licensed-therapy-be-performance-art-can-prostitution/comment-page-1/#comment-60374 Jamesrudy Fri, 11 May 2012 05:30:28 +0000 http://www.culturebot.net/?p=13501#comment-60374 Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern. Alfred North Whitehead (1861 - 1947) Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.

Alfred North Whitehead (1861 – 1947)

]]> Comment on Can Un-Licensed Therapy Be Performance Art? Can Prostitution? by Sarah White http://www.culturebot.net/2012/05/13501/can-un-licensed-therapy-be-performance-art-can-prostitution/comment-page-1/#comment-60359 Sarah White Thu, 10 May 2012 18:44:39 +0000 http://www.culturebot.net/?p=13501#comment-60359 Thanks so much, Jeremy, for the thoughtful article. I think you touch on many of the key issues, and your historical placement of what I do is very prescient. It's been interesting to see all of this unfold, because in my statements I made clear that the director banned me from the WCAOS event because, as he said in the email stating my removal, he considered the image I submitted as my feature piece to be an "ad" and not art and he felt I was a "commercial entity" and "not an artist." My issue has always been with those claims, and I've never actually claimed that what I do as a Naked Therapist should be considered art (and while I also wouldn't contest such a claim were it made by others, I think that discussion is an interesting one, but the issue of the moment for me is whether or not the piece I submitted is an ad or art and whether or not I am a commercial entity or an artist). I was not going to offer Naked Therapy sessions as performance at my Open Studio event. Rather, I was going to live stream the event onto the web at TheNakedTherapist.org and I was going to chat with some of my viewers about art and arousal as Sarah White - The Naked Therapist. This would not involve my getting naked as I only do that in private therapy sessions. My belief is that this whole storm got stirred up because I placed TheNakedTherapist.org on my piece of feature art, thereby rendering it, in the director's opinion, non-art, which is to me the most interesting assertion in all of this. I use my url...and my face, my body, Internet icons - as part of my artistic vocabulary. My url is a symbol of a controversy, it is part of my identity, it is a piece of beauty, it is a political statement. When those two words - naked and therapy - are put together, it gets people thinking, feeling and talking, and that's why I use it in my art. For instance, the piece I submitted for my feature art for WCAOS is part of a larger series called "Hello, My Name Is..." in which I use some of these symbols in pieces of art. I did not put TheNakedTherapist.org on my feature art to advertise my Naked Therapy practice. As I say in my response to the censoring, were Damien Hirst to create a visual art piece on which TheRichestArtist.org appeared on an orange field, it would, in my opinion, be taken for art, even if that url was a shop on which one could buy Damien Hirst's works. People would take it for a shrewd comment on commerce in the art world. I, on the other hand - and I believe it's both because I am a woman whose profession is deemed by some to be an illegitimate and illegitimizing activity and that I am an "unestablished" artist who's playing with the line between commerce and art - am told my piece is not art and that I am not an artist. That is the central issue in all of this, and the one that I think we should be discussing, as you do so well in this piece. So, thanks again! Thanks so much, Jeremy, for the thoughtful article. I think you touch on many of the key issues, and your historical placement of what I do is very prescient. It's been interesting to see all of this unfold, because in my statements I made clear that the director banned me from the WCAOS event because, as he said in the email stating my removal, he considered the image I submitted as my feature piece to be an "ad" and not art and he felt I was a "commercial entity" and "not an artist." My issue has always been with those claims, and I've never actually claimed that what I do as a Naked Therapist should be considered art (and while I also wouldn't contest such a claim were it made by others, I think that discussion is an interesting one, but the issue of the moment for me is whether or not the piece I submitted is an ad or art and whether or not I am a commercial entity or an artist). I was not going to offer Naked Therapy sessions as performance at my Open Studio event. Rather, I was going to live stream the event onto the web at TheNakedTherapist.org and I was going to chat with some of my viewers about art and arousal as Sarah White – The Naked Therapist. This would not involve my getting naked as I only do that in private therapy sessions. My belief is that this whole storm got stirred up because I placed TheNakedTherapist.org on my piece of feature art, thereby rendering it, in the director's opinion, non-art, which is to me the most interesting assertion in all of this. I use my url…and my face, my body, Internet icons – as part of my artistic vocabulary. My url is a symbol of a controversy, it is part of my identity, it is a piece of beauty, it is a political statement. When those two words – naked and therapy – are put together, it gets people thinking, feeling and talking, and that's why I use it in my art. For instance, the piece I submitted for my feature art for WCAOS is part of a larger series called "Hello, My Name Is…" in which I use some of these symbols in pieces of art. I did not put TheNakedTherapist.org on my feature art to advertise my Naked Therapy practice. As I say in my response to the censoring, were Damien Hirst to create a visual art piece on which TheRichestArtist.org appeared on an orange field, it would, in my opinion, be taken for art, even if that url was a shop on which one could buy Damien Hirst's works. People would take it for a shrewd comment on commerce in the art world. I, on the other hand – and I believe it's both because I am a woman whose profession is deemed by some to be an illegitimate and illegitimizing activity and that I am an "unestablished" artist who's playing with the line between commerce and art – am told my piece is not art and that I am not an artist. That is the central issue in all of this, and the one that I think we should be discussing, as you do so well in this piece. So, thanks again!

]]> Comment on Can Un-Licensed Therapy Be Performance Art? Can Prostitution? by R Lewis http://www.culturebot.net/2012/05/13501/can-un-licensed-therapy-be-performance-art-can-prostitution/comment-page-1/#comment-60357 R Lewis Thu, 10 May 2012 18:33:54 +0000 http://www.culturebot.net/?p=13501#comment-60357 Thanks for this well-thoughtout post. A bit of a wide bearth, but this issue does have many angles. Made me thing of 2 old sayings: "You don't pay for the sex, you pay them to leave." So, it's great to read about something where it's not the sex that is dirty; it's the capitalism. And, "originality is lack of information." I know there was even earlier, but this recalls for me Annie Sprinkle's work and Jennifer Blowdryer at the Harlequin Adult Theater before Guiliani closed it down. I don't know if White's work was art before I read this post, but now it's just a matter of whether it's good art or bad art. Thanks for this well-thoughtout post. A bit of a wide bearth, but this issue does have many angles. Made me thing of 2 old sayings: "You don't pay for the sex, you pay them to leave." So, it's great to read about something where it's not the sex that is dirty; it's the capitalism. And, "originality is lack of information." I know there was even earlier, but this recalls for me Annie Sprinkle's work and Jennifer Blowdryer at the Harlequin Adult Theater before Guiliani closed it down. I don't know if White's work was art before I read this post, but now it's just a matter of whether it's good art or bad art.

]]> Comment on In the Middle of Everything: Pavel Zustiak’s “Amidst” by Pavel Zuštiak on “The Painted Bird” Trilogy  | Culturebot http://www.culturebot.net/2011/06/10996/in-the-middle-of-everything-pavel-zustiak%e2%80%99s-amidst/comment-page-1/#comment-60350 Pavel Zuštiak on “The Painted Bird” Trilogy  | Culturebot Thu, 10 May 2012 15:33:29 +0000 http://culturebot.net/?p=10996#comment-60350 [...] Review of Amidst (June 2011) AKPC_IDS += "13499,";Popularity: 1% [?]Share this:EmailPrintFacebookDiggStumbleUponReddit [...] [...] Review of Amidst (June 2011) AKPC_IDS += "13499,";Popularity: 1% [?]Share this:EmailPrintFacebookDiggStumbleUponReddit [...]

]]> Comment on Can Un-Licensed Therapy Be Performance Art? Can Prostitution? by Andy Horwitz http://www.culturebot.net/2012/05/13501/can-un-licensed-therapy-be-performance-art-can-prostitution/comment-page-1/#comment-60344 Andy Horwitz Thu, 10 May 2012 13:16:29 +0000 http://www.culturebot.net/?p=13501#comment-60344 Hey Jeremy - Just a note - Ms. White is treading on familiar territory with a new twist. The "unlicensed psychotherapy as performance art thing" has been done for quite awhile. Lisa Levy has been doing it for about ten years. <a href="http://www.lisalevyindustries.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.lisalevyindustries.com/</a> Also, artist Andrea Fraser did "sex for money as art" thing in a similar form by videotaping herself having sex with a collector in a hotel room - <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrea_Fraser" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrea_Fraser</a> In terms of including ads for businesses in an arts environment there was a similar controversy a few years ago in the San Francisco Fringe Festival when Ian Woodall, a British motivational speaker presented his motivational speech The Tao of Everest as a solo show: <a href="http://www.artsjournal.com/lies/2009/02/a_debate_sparked_by_andorra/" rel="nofollow">http://www.artsjournal.com/lies/2009/02/a_debate_...</a> Hey Jeremy –

Just a note – Ms. White is treading on familiar territory with a new twist. The "unlicensed psychotherapy as performance art thing" has been done for quite awhile. Lisa Levy has been doing it for about ten years. http://www.lisalevyindustries.com/

Also, artist Andrea Fraser did "sex for money as art" thing in a similar form by videotaping herself having sex with a collector in a hotel room – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrea_Fraser

In terms of including ads for businesses in an arts environment there was a similar controversy a few years ago in the San Francisco Fringe Festival when Ian Woodall, a British motivational speaker presented his motivational speech The Tao of Everest as a solo show: http://www.artsjournal.com/lies/2009/02/a_debate_…

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