Date: Wed, 19 Apr 1995 00:30:58 -0400 (EDT)
From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim-AT-panix.com>
Subject: Re:avant-garde today?




Well, I feel the necessity for a "partner." I make videos which are 
definitely edgy (as well as other work that's edgy but another story) and 
I do this for an audience, not only to get an audience but to hold their 
interest. The feeling I got from the Art Strike was, as your post might 
imply, a sense of isolation. There's also the fact that most of the 
artists I know work hard at what they do, against a lot of social and 
economic pressure, and to adapt an anarchic (if that) traditional 
politics of negation just wouldn't and didn't make any sense. When the 
material first came out (I even published some of it in a noise culture 
issue of Art Papers I put together) I was interested in it as a "phen- 
omenon" which was awkward, out there. But then it seemed to be part of a 
zine culture which is always already traditionalizing. Or maybe it's just 
my own disillusion after my own buildup.

Alan


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