written by Charles Esche
shared by sean on November 3rd, 2007 at 6:38 pm
‘So critique takes the form of effete, ironic parody or hopeless frustration - and much art of the 1980s and 1990s didn’t bother with the critique at all but simply tried to make its way in the marketplace. I think there are partial solutions, like ‘engaged autonomy’ - which basically means using the license of cultural funding and capitalism’s toleration of non-economic production methods within art making, to suggest small-scale , modest proposals about the production and distribution of wealth, information, skills, intelligence, secrets, physical assets and social capacities. It may also mean lying low or using diversionary tactics to displace the centre of attention. It is also temporal rather than spatial in effect - that is, some kind of alternative could exist for moments in time but cannot be maintained in space, it has to change constantly.’ - Charles Esche, from an interview here
(See: quasi-architecture)