Taxpayers and rate-payers, via Creative NZ and the Wellington City Council, have been forced to fund, to the tune of $52,000, a one finger gesture aimed right back at them.
This arsing-about advocate who believes "We should never be forced to take a job,'' needs to add a few more caveats to understand how untenable his position is. How about, We should never be forced to take a job in order to allow someone else not to? Both can't be right.
In any case, who is forced to work? If we didn't have a massive state bureaucracy busy redistributing income willy-nilly, people would be "forcing themselves" to work. Or starve.
I really detest this highly infectious idea that it is somehow noble to not work and not consume. Taken to its logical conclusion we would all perish. Or is Mr whatever- his- name- is saying just some should never be forced to take a job, a new sort of elitism. State supported saints perhaps.
All the media talk this weekend is about the dire state of the economy; the lack of recovery. Yet money continues to be dished out on bullshit 'art'. Art promoting loafing as a lifestyle. Just what we f____ing need.
Indeed!
ReplyDeletePond-slime like this are the reason I GENUINELY advocate the return of the workhouse for the able-bodied idle!
A local artist I know, supports himself by doing sign writing- he won't turn his nose up at house-painting either-it's all work.
ReplyDeleteLike yourself, he can produce artwork that people will pay money for!
I would be interested in seeing any artwork of the Bohemian bludger...
Oswald says it all both here and at his site.
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He says at his blog
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"...in my experiments I have discovered a distinguishing element between art and Art proper. And that is "If art is such a super commodity why don't you buy this" meaning that I have a huge body of work that is documented, exhibited, received funding for, but I can not sell, and it is the selling, how much and to who that determines if you are on the right lists, of art or Art Proper."
Reading about this parasite makes my blood boil.
ReplyDeleteHis sense of entitlement is incredible. Unfortunately, there are many bludgers like him in today's NZ.
This artists art is nothing, it is the stuff it comes wrapped in that is provocative, as is so often the case. Too busy being outraged, you fell for it hook line and sinker.
ReplyDeleteI was once thrown out of Peter Mcleavey's gallery in Cuba Street Wellington after I dismissed some of the paintings on display as expensive bullshit.
ReplyDeletethe arts mafia exist thanks to gullible and pretentious people.
Dirk
'...documented, exhibited, received funding for..."
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DON"T FEED THE PIGEONS!
"Too busy being outraged, you fell for it hook line and sinker."
ReplyDeleteI am well aware of the purpose of his art. It is where the funding comes from that is outrageous.
The funding controversy is part of the art itself. This artist now has a profile that the art he produces by his hand could never have given him. About three years ago I went to an exhibition at TePapa and one of the pieces of art lay on the floor in its packing case with instructions not to be unpacked and displayed. Seems the instruction not to unpack was the art. You may be familiar with the piece. Weird.
ReplyDelete"The funding controversy is part of the art itself."
ReplyDeleteIf stupid people and their money wish to be parted, fine.
But this unconsented taxpayer funding of bullshit has gone on too long. The process is not art. It is theft.
It's no different to the Walters Prize winner, $50,000 for a piece of bollocks art, plastic furnuture, not even frigging made by the ártist', while talent artists creating beautiful and skillful art (like yours,Lindsay), get ignored by the snotty art establishment, and often dismissed as çliched!
ReplyDeleteIt's no different to the Walters Prize winner, $50,000 for a piece of bollocks art, plastic furnuture, not even frigging made by the ártist', while talent artists creating beautiful and skillful art (like yours,Lindsay), get ignored by the snotty art establishment, and often dismissed as çliched!
ReplyDeleteIf Tao Wells' rubbish can be considered art, then even me, someone entirely useless at these things, could be considered a potential Michelangelo.
ReplyDeleteThis is a joke, a sad one played on us taxpayers.
The parasite "artist" shhould be stripped of any grants.
Public funding of the arts is just a bad idea. It's a producer of mediocre crap at the best of times, but at a time when the art world seems to have decided that neither skill nor talent are required in an artist it's also a guarantee of events like this.
ReplyDeletePM gets it right again...there may be hope for him yet.
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Thanks people! Great to see opinions expressed so freely if a little immaturely, perhaps appreciate that you are an artist, you don't need permission, it might cheer you up
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