#john kesley

[theeyefeeder]

John Kesley, Aleksandra Mir (eds.), Corporate Mentality, Sternberg Press, 2003.

[season22]

Bernadette Corporation 

“Once you remove yourself from the serious, quasi religious, romantic idea of the solo artist or solo designer, it’s already funny.” - John Kelsey

[nocurators]

http://www.merlincarpenter.com/TATECAFE.pdf

John Kelsey:  I’m just saying that if you catered your art to them, first of all you wouldn’t be selling it. Or you might be. But I don’t know, I think your idea of kitsch is maybe the only avenue, the only possibility out of the problem of bad ‘political art’. Kitsch at least confuses critique with its other, which is top-notch painting and marketable art. I think if those two things are put in a state of tension and undecidability, then there’s a possible way out of either of these problems – being a gallery artist or being an activist artist. Kitsch becomes a sort of discomfort zone. 

Merlin Carpenter: But not everyone chooses to be a gallery artist. 

John Kelsey: But you have. The project is career kitsch, too, it’s not just political kitsch. Because the way you described it, forcing this series of shows, this coherent body of work on a global network of galleries, really pumping it up like Damien Hirst dots with all the Gagosian galleries.

Merlin Carpenter: Cool.