Speak a Little Bit and Sometimes a Bit
Wednesday, February 21, 2007
Hi..Some info for you regarding my SANG work, after much deliberation and meetings with Marylin and Pam, the decision has been made to shift the paremeters.
It will no longer attempt the brillaint but impossible task of translating the speech of public milling around the gardens.
Rather, as a device for transmitting text, the screen will be used to deliver text artworks by other artists. A comittee will be set up, and text pieces can be suggested via email of a blog or something..
A beautifull new platform for artists local and abroad. The work will launch in this new phase alongside transcape and will be used by transcape artists who are doing something at the gallery..
If people want to submit ideas, like "ed is hairy" in meantime : they can contact me matt(at)matthewhindley.com
posted by Robert Sloon at 5:54 PM
8 Comments:
"brilliant but impossible"? One out of two's not bad.
but maybe a good reason why it hasn't been done before
good try matthew. the technology is not quite there yet.
actually what this highlights is that, while bleating for years about lack of resources, SANG has managed to channel huge amounts of donor funds - mainly through the Friends - into the purchasing of works which because they are technically donations do not have to fit into any sensible accountability framework.
dear saint mathew,
i know you made a spelling mistake, its parameters and not paremeters, and that’s to the core of the issue, the pointy end of the s/word one might say. in effect sang has to their relief and with your unbelievable permission trashed your artwork--given it over to "a beautiful new platform ... " arghhh!! how sad, to give away a prize winning work to be used as signage, briefly. rather you should demand the artwork be as the selection committee honoured. be unwavering, be true and tell sang to remove it if its not maintained as contractually they are bound to, forever, as conceived by yourself as a public artwork. now, some might talk about transcience, maliability and other shit, let them carry on. you trash it. be not so stupid!
be not so stupid thyself sister bench, and understand that in that hard ugly world one has to live in once one's daddy has stopped funding one's life, matthew makes a crapload of money from, of all things, art. This (I say viewing it from a distance) is that he has learned the expedient language of double speak, and to play the world the way it want to hear itself played, and while that might offend one's purist studenty funded morals, it is mighty clever
As I pointed out months ago SANG has been using "SPEAK NATURALLY" as a big notice board off & on since it was installed. I do not think that the inadequate technological translation was such a big problem: the random flow of words was in itself of some interest, particularly when played off against the kind of LET ME TELL YOU HOW IT IS which the SANG facade seems to me to project. and arguably had the technology been perfect thye work would have anyway perhaps tested the intentions of the Constitution's Right to Privacy clause . Doesn't one need to negotiate agreement to broadcast somebody's speach?
I suggest that it is quite absurd and disgusting to can the work, unless they have had second thoughts about the initial award selection, in which case it is just as absurd.
Most likely seems that this is an example of instituionalk toenaadering, SIN-ERGY, where SANG and 'sCAPE cozy up together around a joint venture. Nice 'n Useful.
Comment from Mr Eno perehaps?
just because you're a conspiracy theorist doesn't mean the world isn't run by alien puppet masters
Sister Bench: There was rather more than one spelling mistake in St. Matthew's Impassion. (Can we really be surprised he did not get the technology of voice-to-text right when he clearly has never heard of a spell-checker?)
Sister Stench: Despite thy bitter little tone, thee be right on the button about double speak.
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