[Rumori] Illegal Art appropriated

[Steev Hise]

Kembrew, you're absolutely right, but you might also be taking it
too seriously. I'm with Vicki, i think it's fun and flattering
just to see stuff get re-recycled, even if the result is a little
dumb or silly or even if it's sour grapes (which rejected piece
was it?).  It's just amusing to see people flailing around
parodizing stuff, misguided or not.

(For instance, I love the greyday parody of detritus.net, even
though it's completely stupid. or maybe because it's stupid...)

I'm definitely not attached to the name "Illegal Art," which is
all the more reason to make fun of it...

The SFMOMA corporate thing is an interesting issue. it's worth
noting that in the other 2 cities where the show has been it was
in much more underground venues, but in SF we get the city's
premier mainstream art institution backing it. I don't know if
that's bad, but it is interesting.

Perhaps this stuff, at least the visual art side of it, isn't as
dangerous as we like to think? Maybe once you hang "fine art"
stuff in a major gallery (these days at least, not forgetting
Warhol vs Campbell's, et al) it is de facto "safe", unlike
more mass-produced, commodity culture like CDs and books and
movies.

??

smh

Steev Hise .  steev at detritus.net . http://detritus.net/steev
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