Letter to The Best Friends
Monday, March 02, 2009
Hi Francis,
I was a little surprised that you posted our conversation with the comments turned off. When I said that it was a non-negotiable principle of the site, I meant it. I don't necessarily feel I need to justify why it is a principle, but if I do then the idea of criticism as conversation and exchange is what has made the site function. Otherwise you end up walking down a blind alley.
Your action makes me feel that you are being antagonistic, and frankly I find it both disrespectful to a peer and contrived as an intellectual exercise. It makes me unhappy that we are doing this.
I don't mind continuing this conversation with you, and discussing my founding principles further, if you think your role is to question the structure. But having you piss on my shoes is boring. I suggest you compromise by this afternoon at 4pm or we both chalk it up to experience.
I will be posting this letter.
Regards,
Robert
I was a little surprised that you posted our conversation with the comments turned off. When I said that it was a non-negotiable principle of the site, I meant it. I don't necessarily feel I need to justify why it is a principle, but if I do then the idea of criticism as conversation and exchange is what has made the site function. Otherwise you end up walking down a blind alley.
Your action makes me feel that you are being antagonistic, and frankly I find it both disrespectful to a peer and contrived as an intellectual exercise. It makes me unhappy that we are doing this.
I don't mind continuing this conversation with you, and discussing my founding principles further, if you think your role is to question the structure. But having you piss on my shoes is boring. I suggest you compromise by this afternoon at 4pm or we both chalk it up to experience.
I will be posting this letter.
Regards,
Robert
posted by Robert Sloon at 9:58 AM
13 Comments:
mr sloon doesn't like to be the bitch. to laugh or not to laugh...what was the question?
Its not funny. Go hard Robert
Well it's been an interesting excercise, even if it's one of reminding oneself that dated obscure early modernist happenings don't constitute art criticism or make interesting reading.
It interests me too that someone who has theorised that major human suffering is of no consequence should be too afraid to undergo the minor discomfort of feedback comments on artheat.
sloon should sign off his posts with Robert Sloon, Founding Editor.
Anonymous 11:40 is spot on: the kind of crap the fiends were spouting is so very dated and so very boring, even to themselves I suspect. Yawn. Well done, Sloonie, don't let allow Artheat to be hijacked by rubbish spewers.
Please tell me those friends have fucked off. What drivel.zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
you can't be my friend. I only take enemies.
the ever-prickly ms mona
Sloon said I should post the letter I wrote to him. (To illustrate a point?)
I wrote him a letter because the comments function for everything The Best Friends posted was turned off. And they said that "people can always email" (or something). And so I did:
Hello Robert
What is going on with Artheat at the moment?
Is The Best Friends trying to turn the Artheat page into some cute new media art piece internet-as-medium website type thing? Surely there is a better forum for this type of experimentation?
This meaningless and arbitrary content makes me depressed and ill at ease.
Following the path that The Best Friends seems to want to go down would probably create a fair amount of relevant content, but in all sincerity it's going to be so tedious and so tiresome.
Its like any of the important boring/dense pieces of art in history - great that they were produced for the cannon and all, but thank fuck it's not all like that. Can't you abort the whole horrible process because even though you know it might bring up something interesting, it'll still just be shitty for everyone the whole way through?
Hope you are well.
Kind Regards
Jonathan Kope
don't you girls have school to go to?
cute
Okay, now I'm just being bitch-ass, but can you imagine those Best Friends meetings? Mother of God, what a tedious process!
Listening to artists listlessly string adjectives together while waiting for the next synapse to fire between waves of marijuana-induced torpor... jesushchristfuckmewhatadrag. Bet you they roll their own cigarettes.
However, what is worth noting is the proliferation of trios: The Police, Husker Du, Nirvana, Avant Car Guard, The Best Friends... think I'm off to start my own. Going to call it Found Conscientious Object(ion), all eighties theory parentheses pun and shit. Coming to a front room near you.
They pissed on your shoes, Sloonie? I'll get 'em, i swear it!! Hope you weren't wearing Crocs...
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