Comments on: Join NUCA http://www.lucazoid.com/bilateral/join-nuca/ /// art / exchange / events / re-enactment /// Tue, 10 Jan 2012 11:33:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: Sim http://www.lucazoid.com/bilateral/join-nuca/#comment-122 Sim Sat, 17 Jan 2004 00:08:37 +0000 http://www.lucazoid.com/bilateral/join-nuca/#comment-122 NUCA sounds amazing. I'm looking forward to the discussions it will hopefully enable. Some of the things that your proposal has made me think about are - are ideas not collectable like objects? In some way doesn't the exchange of ideas in some way, and sometimes over a long period of time (for example feminist thought about and in art practice) collect a value, which then influences the objects that become collectable? Ian Burn has interesting things to say about this, and about the contradictions and what he calls failures of conceptual art. This quote by him is interesting to think about... "After you realise that the market can operate by selling ideas just as readilyt as it sells objects as commodities, how long can you continue to believe you are being subversive toward the market?" Also I'm interested in the distinction between 'politically minded' and 'politically active'. This simple construction of what it means to be political is based on the same old same old idea that politics happens on the streets in obvious ways. MQ's refugee island project (which is fantastic) can, I think, operate in interesting and innovative ways outside of the way MQ already conceived. Even sitting on someone's mantlepiece, the kit is operational, in the sense that it will enable discussion etc. Being 'active' has a wealth of nuances which fall outside of definitions which define political activity through the positioning of bodies in public spaces.... sim NUCA sounds amazing. I’m looking forward to the discussions it will hopefully enable. Some of the things that your proposal has made me think about are – are ideas not collectable like objects? In some way doesn’t the exchange of ideas in some way, and sometimes over a long period of time (for example feminist thought about and in art practice) collect a value, which then influences the objects that become collectable? Ian Burn has interesting things to say about this, and about the contradictions and what he calls failures of conceptual art. This quote by him is interesting to think about… “After you realise that the market can operate by selling ideas just as readilyt as it sells objects as commodities, how long can you continue to believe you are being subversive toward the market?”

Also I’m interested in the distinction between ‘politically minded’ and ‘politically active’. This simple construction of what it means to be political is based on the same old same old idea that politics happens on the streets in obvious ways. MQ’s refugee island project (which is fantastic) can, I think, operate in interesting and innovative ways outside of the way MQ already conceived. Even sitting on someone’s mantlepiece, the kit is operational, in the sense that it will enable discussion etc. Being ‘active’ has a wealth of nuances which fall outside of definitions which define political activity through the positioning of bodies in public spaces….

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