From: Cari Machet (email suppressed)
Date: Thu Mar 26 2009 - 16:45:59 PDT
if i am so barking up the wrong tree
then why is it such a big deal
plus once again you are missing or ignoring info
which is
i wasn't saying fred is that particular type of critic
i was commenting on general critics
and my experience of some theorists
(talk about strawman building)
AND
what i did say about fred was that i think there is a bias on his part about
brakhage
i could be wrong
if so make an argument to try and prove that i am
instead of repeatedly making up things that i am saying
so that you can argue against me regarding them
cari machet
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On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 1:33 PM, malgosia askanas <email suppressed> wrote:
> Cari wrote:
>
> if you think there is no malaise you are wrong
>> in the film community AND the art community and
>> lots of other communities
>> you are missing or ignoring some information in my posts
>> i have actually seen freds actual body and have experienced his writing
>> many times
>> he is the authority i am referencing
>> he is specifically i would say THEE authority on brakhage
>> so...
>>
>> i am not particularly in love with critics
>> i align more with dada on such matters
>> once the art movement is 'known' it is over
>> plus there have been some way too powerful art critics
>> which i find stifling to art making
>>
>
> Cari, I've known Fred for 13 years, on Frameworks and in person. I've had
> many an enjoyable conversation with him, have read many of his writings, and
> followed, as much as I could remotely, his artwork. He introduced me to the
> films of Bela Tarr and to the concept of walking across the Triborough
> Bridge. I have never seen him take the attitude that "once the art movement
> is 'known' it is over", express the slightest desire to become one of those
> "way too powerful art critics " or take any position which would be
> "stifling to art making". In my opinion, you are SOOO barking up the wrong
> tree. You're erecting a strawman and then getting us all into a furious
> fight over it. I can see how there is some fun in it, but I submit to you
> that there is way more fun in furiously fighting about films and our
> perceptions of them, than about our psychological hangups. And yes, Fred
> knows more about Brakhage than almost anybody. I would say that's a good
> thing, no?
>
> Dada, that's definitely the spirit of the times. We are all Dada now.
>
>
>
> -m
>
>
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