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PW Talks with Kim Stanley Robinson

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For me, art in our time is strongest when it is aware of science, includes science, is inspired by science, or is about science. On the linguistic level, the new words coined by scientists to describe their new discoveries fp>orm a giant growing lexicon that means English is simply bursting with new possibilities, resembling the Elizabethan age in that respect. Then conceptually, science is creating new stories to tell, by deluging us with new information and potentialities. In this deluge we need art to do its usual job of sorting things out, by giving things their human dimension and by exploring how they might feel and what they might mean. So to me the arts and the sciences are completely intertwined. Maybe that’s always been true, but now more than ever.

For some artists working today, art has already left the galleries and the museums, and since I was thinking about world-making as an art form, this “making art everywhere” was really suggestive. The landscape art of Andy Goldsworthy, and the performance art of Marina Abramovic, were particularly important to my book, so much so that in 2312 their names have turned into nouns for their particular genres.

—–Kim Stanley Robinson

via PW Talks with Kim Stanley Robinson, Cont. « Genreville.

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Bucksport Waterfront Mural Project

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Do you know, or are you, an artist living in Bucksport, Orland, Verona, or Prospect? Here’s an opportunity for you.

Last night I attended a committee meeting for this project. It, to put it bluntly, wasn’t very well attended. There were 7 people there, and 4 of them were the people in town government who were working on getting the project together.
This is a project the town is undertaking (with matching funds from Camden National Bank) to replace the murals that were done for the town’s bicentennial, back in 1992. The murals were taken down several years ago, because the wall they were on needed repairs, and they were never put back yup, for various reasons. They’ve been stored in a town garage, and most are in very poor shape. Some can be restored if anyone is willing to do so, but others are pretty much beyond repair.
Bucksport is looking for 11 artists or groups of artists to make up to 11 new murals (or do some restoration work on the old ones).
There is going to be another meeting on January 10 at 6:30PM at the Bucksport Town Hall (Jan. 11 if the weather’s bad)to see if there’s more interest, and to let other interested people know what’s going on. There should be some posters, etc. showing up in various places around town (thanks to some volunteers), and there is a January 31, deadline for artist’s proposals.
The murals are going to be done on 2’x4′ canvases, and then digitally blown up to 4’x8′, and put on a vinyl backing, so that they may last better than the original ones, and then the original (new) paintings will be hung in various businesses around town. The theme is “Bucksport: Past, Present, and Future.” Also, the town is planning on renting a space for the artists to work, and the public to be able to come see the works in progress, as well as supplying materials.
For more info contact David Milan at 469-7368

Art

Keith Haring on Art As Lineage


“I am not a beginning. I am not an end. I am a link in a chain. The strength of which depends on my own contributions, as well as the contributions of those before and after me. I hope I am not vain in thinking that I may be exploring possibilities that artists like Stuart Davis, Jackson Pollock, Jean Dubuffet and Pierre Alechinsky have initiated but did not resolve. Their ideas are living ideas. They cannot be resolved, only explored deeper and deeper. I find comfort in the knowledge that they were on a similar search. In some sense I am not alone. I feel it when I see their work. Their ideas live on and increase in power as they are explored and rediscovered. I am not alone, as they were not alone, as no artist of the brotherhood ever was or ever will be alone. When I am aware of this unity, and refuse to let my self-doubt interfere, it is one of the most wonderful feelings I’ve ever experienced. I am a necessary part of an important search to which there is no end.” – November 7, 1978

via Art Basel Special: Keith Haring on The Art Market.