This is not my practise. Or at least this is not the practise. It is just a practise - which I have. I really enjoyed the debate around how necessary art is - I think these topics of selfishness, genius and integrity are so vast and interesting. I was trying to think about how best to respond to the topics raised, and maybe I will offer something very obvious as a reminder for myself. The more artists I meet, the more I become excited by how nothing is necessarily true. Say, for instance, between a small group of us we could agree that all art is necessary , then we have an agreed truth for our community. However, next week a new member joins who introduces their practice as the pursuit of making unnecessary art… has our one agreed truth now been broken? Perhaps the pursuit of creating the unnecessary comes from the intrinsic belief that art is always necessary. But with the fallible craft of naming things with words, do we diminish our imagined unnecessary art practice-r? Perhaps fo...
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