>Do you have enough time?
Yeah, life is long enough.
> How do you use free time?
For talking.
> How does your free time (should you have it)
> affect your (artistic) work?
Scattering. (I'm not a recreational artist.)
> Marcel Duchamp, perhaps the greatest avant-garde
> artist of the last century stopped working as an
> artist in 1912. This fact had an enormous
> influence on modern art. On 11 November 1964
> Joseph Beuys actually dedicated a complete art-
> action called " The silence of Marcel Duchamp
> is overrated" to this refuse to work.
> How do you explain this enormous effect
> Duchamp's 'not-work' had? And what do you
> think about it?
It's quite simple to frighten bourgeoisie.
I'm not a bourgeois.
> In a recent essay Lev Manovich states that since
> the end of 1960s, modern art has far more become
> a conceptual activity and less a question of
>"medium" or "techniques" (thus, for example he
> assigns software-art to craft).
> That means art could easily be considered as part
> of the "vita contemplativa" - the contemplative
> life - and could be referred to as (perhaps last)
> counter draft to the "active" spectacle of the
> global capitalism. What do you think about that?
"Could be" - but what for?
Is regression to private affairs really an
alternative to the nice purchase art?
> There is a coincidence between art and free
> software. As a rule, except appreciation both do
> not gain much money and are commercially
> exploited.
> For free software this is allowed and desired but
> not for art. What do you think: Will the free-
> software-model increasingly become valid for art
> too (that means we will have complete cross-
> subsidizing and self-exploiting).
The creator of free software is an amateur coder.
The creator of free artwork is an amateur artist.
An amateur is a lover and the professional artist
is a businessman.
Everybody is free to decide.
> Only a few artists make a good living - despite
> supposed highest appreciation. Doesn't society
> owe them at least paid leave?
Most of the people are poor.
But never befopre there was a society making
being an artist so easy.
Hardly any artist believes in art as a benefit of
society.
Why should society support artists?
