Half Baked
Sunday, March 18, 2007
Aaah, I love the smell of publicity in the morning. Caught this in today's Sunday Times. Congratulations to Stuart Bird... it's not often that news about art gets page 6 (and a quote on page 2 "Zuma is a father figure to the nation and his followers accept his pearls of wisdom in the same way children eat sweets, regardless of the damage it might be causing"). Anyway, I never thought no-one cared about political art anymore, and it is cool to be mentioned in a major weekly. My only problem is, Stuart, how did you manage to get the photographer to convince you to pose like that? What's also really funny is the bad timing... why would anyone report on a show that's busy, as I speak, being taken down?
posted by Robert Sloon at 3:52 PM
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Zuma-related satire really excites certain white folk, as he provides the spectre of the dangerous black lunatic to which we can all say "I told you so" while failing to smell the sublimated racism boiling in our veins. You could call him a self-fulfilling white prophecy.
A dangerous lunatic is a dangerous lunatic. Useing the race card is not a resonable response to Zuma’s impotency issue’s. This, I believe is what's really on display when he calls for his machine gun every time he can’t get his own way. Considering his illustrious contribution to our divorce statistics, I’m convinced that what he mostly needs is some “Burning Spear”, a herbal derivative of Viagra.
It must surely be against his culture to be calling for this kind of help publicly. Mr Zuma will grab this solution with both hands shaking, and I strongly recommend that someone gets him what he needs urgently and puts a premature end to this oudated song and dance routine of his.
hey sloon that my frikkin lighter!!!!!! grrrrrrrrrr!
isn't mugabe the self fullfilling white whatever "we prefer our assholes white" said? zuma is just a total cunt in a powerful slot making everyone nervous........even some black people
this work (biscuits) is didactic to the nth degree. can't believe it needs to be explained. just points to the general culture we live in and how desperately removed from the popular audience (i.e. newspaper readers) we (practitioner) often think art is. mutter mutter: must remember to explain the work otherwise nobody will get it...
Apparently linda stupart organised this for stuart. I think she insisted on the contemplative pose but not the work being taken down as we speak... taken down mr sloon, so that it can go up again in Durban. The Sunday Times is a national newspaper you parochial worm!
Where's Durban?
Such a shame these little discussions dont touch on anything worthwile discussing, other than Julia's response I must add.
You are missing quite the oppurtunity to engage in in-depth discussion about art. Or am I at the wrong adress? All you see in Cape Town at the moment, and Michaelis being a 'great frontrunner' is explanations of explanations of explanations, it seems people indeed ask themselves, how to explain this work that I might, someday, make? Is no-one interested anymore in the mysteries of visual art, in art that poses questions, without simutaneously answering them? Do we just want the minute of fame of being mentioned in articles? Are we too self absorbed to realize that this is not about the quality of the work, but some popular theme that is mentioned within it?
Also, robert sloon, although censorship sounds scary, can you not decide to not publish some responses, which have fck all to do with the article?
Get Aids. All of you.
well i never! now we have the skate board grade 9 white boy graffitti crowd, lip ringed, skid marked underpanters art project webbies from i guess camps bay high or rondebosch who we know as premature ejaculating blog taggers ... hooked on this site. gee whiz, cool, cool, probably get 90% for their projects.
Bird fly blissquit
i dig black
To change the subject a bit, I think the popular press is a big problem. I have had to deal with them quite a lot, and no matter what you say about your art they don't listen, cos they have a preconceived idea of artists in some kind of niche market alongside Woolworths organic peas: tasteful. They have you pegged in their mind as living a kind-f Cape Style life in your reed-ceilinged Camps Bay duplex, breaking out the champers and using a lot of words like 'original', 'inspired', and 'fascinated'. They need to be killed.
What is actually weak about this work is that the appropriation of Zoo Bisquits as "art medium" (because so ubiquitous, cannot be considered an "art idea", surely?) rests solely and stupidly on a simple pun. I sppose poor Bird must have a fine tuned and well developed experiental understanding of The Pun, of being given the bird, of being one of the birds, a bird in the old onanistic hand, etc . Childhood in all it's rich creamy sugar reduced to make what point...
There's a large amount of hating in this room, much tension. jealous that Stuart is on top? Congradulations to Stuart and to a much lesser degree Jake(bottom left corner)
ooh mona girl:
LHOOQ!
I hate it when I've forgotten those damn arty references
Julia Rosa, Precisely... as in, "lhooq in the rear-veiw mirror".
that was funny
why is the art world full of public wankers? what is art anyway? and why do (we) like it?
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