Revisiting my cv
today, I am forced to remember two aspects of my past -- and my youthful, ridiculous idea of my own abilities and importance
1. On all the committees I ever sat at the University of Minnesota, I thought I was supposed to DO something, whereas now, looking back, I realized that my most important function was to occupy space. I had no patience either for slow change. I couldn't understand institutional inertia and believed that I was supposed to try to make things more "rational."
2. Seeing all my art reviews made me flush with pleasure in my early twenties. Today, I read Artforum with horror. There is much more so-called "diversity" in the pages -- if by that one means international jet-setters and advertisements for Art Fairs from Greenland to rural China, alongside advertisements for bad boy artist pushing the envelope with shows of staged violence against women (models) and other forms of jejeune transgression. In the midst of this, reviews. It's like a trade magazine gone mad.
1. On all the committees I ever sat at the University of Minnesota, I thought I was supposed to DO something, whereas now, looking back, I realized that my most important function was to occupy space. I had no patience either for slow change. I couldn't understand institutional inertia and believed that I was supposed to try to make things more "rational."
2. Seeing all my art reviews made me flush with pleasure in my early twenties. Today, I read Artforum with horror. There is much more so-called "diversity" in the pages -- if by that one means international jet-setters and advertisements for Art Fairs from Greenland to rural China, alongside advertisements for bad boy artist pushing the envelope with shows of staged violence against women (models) and other forms of jejeune transgression. In the midst of this, reviews. It's like a trade magazine gone mad.
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