File spoon-archives/surrealist.archive/surrealist_1996/96-06-28.151, message 70


Date: Sun, 16 Jun 1996 22:51:37 -0400
From: Michael Betancourt <mwb2-AT-mosquito.com>
Subject: ANSWERS


THE QUESTIONAIRRE

There seems little I can add to Pierre's summing up of what we've already
said. If anything, it simply shows that we've already asked these questions
(perhaps too often, perhaps not -- depends on your perspective.)
Whatever your feeling about it, that we already have a consensus about
works/artists and their status as surreal or otherwise is evident, or at
least general agreement that as a group we can at least hope to find those
works which can be treated as surreal. This latter is very imporatant in
that if we can't reach such agreements about these issues, then we have a
BIG problem, and not one that is easily solvable.

I would suggest, then, that we adopt Pierre's suggestion that a 3-4 person
positive reaction to a work/artist be the minimum for inclusion, and that
this rule apply not only to work supplied to us by those outside the list,
but to all of us who are involved to some degree already. Simply being on
this list should not make us and our work any different than that of the
rest of the world, because if a rule doesn't apply to us as well, then it is
an unfair rule and we should not use it. Such actions are those of a
dictatorship. (With rules it's all or none; there's no middle ground.)
This seems a reasonable basis for including works.

-- Michael Betancourt
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