From: Freya (email suppressed)
Date: Mon Aug 22 2005 - 10:35:39 PDT
> The "potlatch" idea is adjunct to this, in the sense
> that it's a
> "we're not only in it for the money" economic model
> of exchange
> of goods and actions that serves to mediate
> relations in a
> community.
It's an economic model where there is no money and
people just give each other presents? I like that
idea.
Sadly Kodak aren't participating! ;)
> I'm not the expert Keith is, but i think he's right
> about how
> that model describes pretty well the actuality of
> filmmaking
> (and video making) practice. It is a term from i
Yes, I think it definitely describes why artists do
stuff better than other descriptions might.
I guess the trouble with filmaking is that it is such
an expensive and difficult process compared to
painting and that it is much more ephemerol, so if we
want to look after the presents we have, there is an
economic factor involved.
As I said, I don't think it is the artists who are
upset with educational establishments and suchlike, as
much as the people who are trying to look out for them
and protect them.
Artists are generally happy when people show their
films or talk about their work.
> believe a
> Northwestern Native American practice of extravagant
> reciprocal
> gift-giving and feastmaking. It was first
> investigated by a
> French anthropologist Marcel Mauss in the 1920s,in
> his book "The
> Gift" and Bataille picked up on it as did the
> Lettrists (who
> named their journal Potlatch) and the Situationist
> Guy Debord.
Wow thanks Konrad, now I feel I understand it a bit
better. It sounds really interesting. I'll have to try
and read about it more sometime.
I like the idea of giving people presents, it would be
nice if we could try and give presents to people who
might not be around yet, I like that idea even more
but I guess it's very difficult.
love
Freya
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