By the way, a friend in Sydney made a remark that I had been a bit harsh in these final sentences in my notes about Martha Rosler:

“(but really, why DID you call her a throwback, forgotten & outdated?)”

here is my response to that question:

I did think, once I realised that other people (besides me) were starting to read the blog, that I should actually look at how what I had written might come across.

I should be more clear about Rosler in that last paragraph.

To be sure, I fuckin love her politics.

What I really meant to say was that, in contrast to the zap and zizz of Carey Young -(whose project, I thought, beyond slick “presentation”, was a bit thin (as you can see from my notes in the blog itself)) – Martha Rosler seemed a bit … tired?

Or a bit disheartened … as if *she herself* felt like a throwback to a forgotten and (considered to be) outdated way of working…(she may have even said this herself as part of her talk ).

Far from it: I think we have a lot to learn from her (especially my generation of artists (born in 1975), which has grown up with dwindling experience of unions and co-operation – its like we’re having to learn it ourselves, rather than inherit and grow with it)…