Sleazy Art Meetings (3)

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Coming Out to Play 


I've always wanted to do something a bit more daring artistically, but my gallerist is rather conservative. Sure I've thought about dumping the uptight neurotic but he's such a good catch and I kinda want to hang on to him and the shows are happening. Still, I need excitement and fresh input and I don't' ever want the gallerist to get any hint that I might be subverting him, so I turned to the radical 'Agit-Art Service' in hope of finding a discrete underground artist to satisfy my needs. 

I didn't bother to put up an ad, I just replied to who had ads up themselves on the 'Agit-Art Service' system. The first one I met was this cool guy who said he'd be willing to explore non institutionalized concepts with me anywhere. Anywhere I thought...mmm, we had a brief chat online then arranged to meet.

He was trendy and obviously quite well known in his field and wanted discretion so we decided to meet at a park on the other side of the city. He was a cute looking art activist and nice to be with, but as soon as we met he his mobile rang and it seemed to be from a fellow activist. Him and the person on the other end of the phone dicussed various art strategies. As we were getting closer to each other I thought it was of the radical idea of spice up our lives. I undid his reactionary angst and pulled out his agenda. 

I proceeded to re-invent Plato's Pharmacy while he talked to his fellow art activist friend who seemed female to me, and he had a tough time not letting her onto what was going on. When he got off the phone he fell to the ground and I continued to make a very close reading of the Phaedrus to him as he proclaimed that what I was doing was incredible. Then we did it, I slid his crucial Platonic distinction into my pharmakon and we continued to explore various 'art rule' gibberings that had been implimented by language based 'gate keepers', from  institutions out in the open. 

People off in the distance could see what we were up to and watched us as we pro-actively explored new conceptions with each other, but no one ventured near to us. We wound up caught in an endless play of differences, differences between signs, and differences within signs in the back of his jeep and finally I deconstructed his theoretical load. What an experience, and when we parted we made a promise to do it again sometime. I think we both are going to try and deconstruct a few more culturalized ideas, there are just so many to choose from and so little time. 

marc garrett
http://www.furtherfield.org


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