Ok, so I guess this guy knew his stuff and some of the insights he was making was interesting, but overall I really didn't enjoy this lecture. First and I guess most importantly I felt really disconnected from Demos, and therefore my interest in what he was saying faded quickly. I did not like how he just read from his paper, and some of the language he used was a little too much because he didn't really explain some of it's meaning, so I kinda got lost.
I know he was commenting on work concerning globalization/progress and artists dealing with it and he said that globalization can only be a term of ambiguity and ambivalence.
I did like one thing he said particularly, "we should think about people getting into the gallery and not as much getting images to people by TV/Internet." Yet, while I like this idea, I don't completely agree with it. It seems delusional to me to think that the mass population is just going to get up and start actively searching out and going to galleries. They have to have a reason and to get them to do this and give them this reason you have to reach them first (by mass media usually). And why wouldn't you want to display your work or message in the mass media, the more people it reaches the better. I don't know, it seems like a catch 22 to me.
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