From: Freya (email suppressed)
Date: Tue Oct 18 2005 - 15:08:11 PDT
> > I guess if the idea of avant garde really does
> mean in
> > opposition, then the idea of an alternative place
> to
> > go, is also an idea of opposition in a way. By
> that I
> > mean that people have an alternative place to
> engage
> > with artwork and ideas in opposition to the main
> one,
> > and it's very existance is a matter of opposition,
> > because you have an alternative space, so you do
> not
> > have to engage in the main space.
>
> Again i think you are talking about shelter, not
> engagement,
> which is my sense of what the original term meant.
> It's totally
> ok, even necessary, to 'do your own thing' i'm not
> against that
> at all, not against play (or even "serious play") as
> a source of
> strength and creativity. I just think it's
> confusing to use the
> term 'avant garde' to refer to that.
Shelter is nice too, but when I was thinking about it
I had more in mind the state of affairs that formerly
existed between the united states and the USSR.
love
Freya
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