the artist as a visual expert / video dictionary by Colonel

from the ABC News interview at PS1 MOMA 05/03/2007

EXPERTISE [fr. expertice]

The artist is an expert in visual information and conceptual representation.
Those who are in control of images rules the world.
The importance of production, distribution and consumption of pictures should be obvious.
The artist, who is supposed to have a certain degree of expertise in the production, distribution and consumption of visual information and conceptual representation, is curiously absent from the battlefield in the War of Images or the Clash of Icons.
This, we believe, is no coincidence.
The artist is consciously being withheld from the battlefield.
The artist is put to his isolated studio to produce already made pictures of yesterday to be exhibited tomorrow and viewed when they are already too late.
The visual expertise of the artist is disarmed as a logic in the production of art.
The Emergency Artist can't obey this imposed logic of art production.
The Emergency Artist has to use his expertise where it is of real use.
This means breaking with the notion of art's autonomy.
It means breaking with the function of art's institutions.
And it means breaking with art's history.
Essentially it means breaking with the very concept of art as it has evolved since the Renaissance.
Don't you think so too?

the dictionary emergency room
http://www.emergencyrooms.org/dictionary/words/

emergency room officiel home page
http://www.emergencyrooms.org/

emergency room at PS1/MOMA ;
http://www.emergencyrooms.org/ps1.html

the 05mars 2007
state of the exhibition that day at PS1/MOMA

http://www.ps1.org/emergencyroom/36/

press coverage :
http://conclusionism.com/ps1/coverage.html

ABC News broadcasted result of the recording
http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=local&id=5104707

http://colonel web site
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