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V.Codec Online Forum Apr.25.2006: Panelist Regina Hackett
Forum Moderator:
(Question for Regina Hackett) Does contemporary visual art criticism serve a different function(s) today than it did 100 years ago? 10 years ago?
Regina Hackett:
100 years for we, few, we happy few. Audience was artists and the highly literate, except newspaper critics, who tended to know little.
Regina Hackett:
10 years — pluralism is finally really and truly working. I was just in london, and the ICA was awful. The YBA is over and hasn't cropped up elsewhere. Artists have a shot everywhere.
Forum Moderator:
(Ten seconds left...)
Regina Hackett:
But a shot at what? Artists still have to develop, a long slow process, a miracle, really.
Forum Moderator:
START FREEFORM!!!!
Gretchen Bennett:
Regina, what do you mean, artists have a shot everywhere?
Corey Smith:
Do you mean there's no real forum, like it's a free for all?
Corey Smith:
Like the Internet has leveled the playing field.
Gretchen Bennett:
For example, is New York still a center for art, art criticism?
Eva Lake:
Too many talking heads. Maybe there were fewer way back when and they meant more...
Regina Hackett:
I put everywhere in the wrong spot. It's artists everywhere. They can live where they want. No dominant collective. Which means, We're up! The Northwest. Our turn.
Eva Lake:
But the market is not here. Or does that not matter?
Regina Hackett:
Not the Internet. Maybe partially art fairs. And small publications everywhere, and art collectives.
Regina Hackett:
I don't think it matters if collectors live here (at least, not vitally), but it matters that they live somewhere and have a chance to buy art globally.
Eva Lake:
Do you really think you can be anywhere? I still wonder about that...
Corey Smith:
I'm a hillbilly and a victim of rural poverty and poor education. I have giant fingers and horrible spelling and here I am chattin' it up with you guys!
Regina Hackett:
New York is not the center. A great place, but there is no center. I'm thrilled about it.
Regina Hackett:
Hey hillbilly, and holding yer own.
Gretchen Bennett:
I wonder about things like first-hand information and what part that plays in there being no "center."
Gretchen Bennett:
I'm a hillbilly too!
Eva Lake:
I love being here but when I was in NYC last year, I showed my show card to peole, they turn it around
(don't care at all about the image/art) and see Portland Oregon and it's like, "NEXT..."
Regina Hackett:
Yes eva. Anywhere. There's a guy who's name I can't spell who's living at the edge of the world in Canada and making a name for himself.
Corey Smith:
I sell a majority of my work to people in LA and NY, Portland is not the place to sell art.
Regina Hackett:
Eva. "Next" is a hangover of the old power structure. They're dead and don't know it.
Gretchen Bennett:
Yes, I agree with Regina.
Eva Lake:
What's a hillbilly? I grew up in southern Oregon...baby lambs in people's kitchens...does that qualify?
Forum Moderator:
(Twenty seconds...)
Regina Hackett:
Thank you Ms. Frances. you're one of the artists I'm thrilled lives here.
Gretchen Bennett:
Cool.
Corey Smith:
People drive Subarus here, not Mercedes. There's not enough people with disposable incomes to support the art community in over-saturated Portland.
Eva Lake:
The odd power structure seemed monolithic in Chelsea, that's all I can say...I had nothing to do with it...
Regina Hackett:
Yes, but if the art's important and written about in an important way, collectors will find it.
Forum Moderator:
(...and we are unfortunately DONE with freeform on this question.)
Forum Moderator:
Picking my next victim...
Forum Moderator:
er...panelist...
Forum Moderator:
out of the bowl...
