“There’s something about this model—which works for writers and curators as it does artists on all levels—that’s universally familiar as it is upsetting: those who have learned to play the game and strategize are generally rewarded by exhibition opportunities, commissions, gallery dinners, those impossible-to-find entry level jobs, et cetera. Yet this modus operandi that celebrates strategy, money, power, and class, and disavows egalitarianism seems existentially at odds with what we’re all here for: to look, and examine closely, to generate ideas that examine why life is worth living, and to attempt to understand with more gravity what it means to be a human being on this planet.”
— http://rhizome.org/editorial/2012/may/24/whitney/ (via traditionaldoom)
(via l-l-w)
