I’ve been thinking about Jon Bowen’s letter in a-n magazine.
And sitting on this for days.
Making money is not sufficient cause for making art.
All materials are equal.
A cardboard box can equal a tube of paint.
Art is a product of technical process.
Art is a product of intellectual process.
Technical process and intellectual process constitute thought.
The distinction between technical and intellectual process is false.
‘Skill’ is an honorific term.
‘Skill’ is the form of intelligent reflective (reflexive?) action.
‘Skills’ are not discrete entities.
It is impossible to talk about skills as discrete entities.
‘Skills’ cannot be taught.
Techniques can be taught.
All disciplines are conceptually generated and technically realised.
The distinction between ‘conceptual’ and ‘skill’ based disciplines is false.
The distinction between conceptual and intellectual, technique and skill is false.
Forms are their content(s); form and content occur simultaneously.
The appropriation of technical process is a political act.
The proper response to an artwork is another artwork.
Teachers and lecturers are powerful people.
Teaching and lecturing (might) encourage pursuit of power.
Most artists disappear.
Many ‘artists’ live in a state of nostalgia.
Bad art is better than mindless art.
£50 is money misused for a dashed off seaside.
