Madrid
Back from Madrid and the Rene Sofia workshops. Fantastic time but left feeling a bit confused over contemporary practice. Saw Gurnica and Goya's black paintings and the garden of earthly delight and felt tired out by authenticity. Liked reading peters musing on the Doncaster discussions Blog - do you think he would have a fight with paddles with Karl from Rotherham. I think there was a time in my recent past when I would of found this blogg impenetrable I'm not sure if the fact it makes complete sense is a good thing or a bad thing. Reading Boudoir on the plain I think he was saying that ethnographers make explicit practices that people understand implicitly - So museum curators and artists know what they are doing but don't deconstruct it . Anyway here's a picture of Eric Knowels with my paddle.
posted by spodsheff @ 9:03 AM
2 Comments:
Is that Bourdieu you were reading?
he did lots of v. good things and I have something about Bourdieu the ethnographer you might like.
I would not worry aobut authenticity too much. Most ethngoraphers simply make things up.
When I send my fieldnotes to the people who were there when I took them they say that there is some resemblance to what they remember but not much.
Thats the one - Don't know why I ended up reading it- perhaps it was because the metro was in spanish. Kate are you intending to visit the work in Doncaster? I don't really care about the authentic - just the idea of it.
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