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Artist Statement

/IZOLYATSIA/'s mission is to hold the eye to all-too-fragile flesh. Prescribed roles associated with a newly egalitarian way of working and community arts provide alternative solutions to society’s problems. They simply acknowledge them and orient themselves towards the meaning-bearing features of a former insulation materials plant in Donetsk, eastern Ukraine. The exhibition serves as a trajectory into what it brings together; the seven weeks spent with the Ministry of Culture 2008 inclusive. The Liverpool Biennial Festival takes place in the context of a physical site where groups of works interpreted by Havekost increasingly uses his only his own interpretation, not to cause them to lose their practical purposes, yet retain symbolic meanings of popular culture--but to gain meaining via the mass media, which are bringing out those tasks commensurate with absurdity, and combining works distilled from contemporary forms of surveillance and control. Louro builds his pieces and inspires the content through a unique collection of overpowering images without a roof for his "Demeure du Chaos" www.chaosmansion.org www.demeureduchaos.org A related work, /THING/: New Sculpture from Northeastern Brazil (1989) has repeatedly dealt with duration, process and the and the new building’s 1,092-square meter (11,754 square feet) of CCBB São Paulo, San Francisco, co-published by the Danish Pavilion. Commissioned by the Menil Collection. */Art and Activism/*: Projects of John Miller (USA), Dan Graham and Robin Watkins; Alastair MacKinven; Seamus Harahan; Stark Coleman.

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Wait what? What did you just read?

I ask myself the same thing after I read a lot of real-life artist statements too similar to the above.

You Can Draw These From a Hat Because It's All Farce

It's okay. It's supposed to be farce. Exactly like too much similar writing about art is not--not intentionally anyway.

Folks have studied and named the fugly beast which is such writing. It is International Art English, or IAE.

Good and Bad Artist Statements

A good artist statement may be:

• Optional: if it is better that there is no statement, please make none
• Clear and accessible
• Usefully informative or descriptive of the art in away that may not be obvious to the observer, but which improves their experience or appreciation of the work upon learning.

A bad artist statement probably:

• Lacks any of those qualities
• Is conceived for any of countless bad reasons which all artists should say no to
• Perhaps at worst profanely anoints and separates The Opaqueonaut: in reality the artist turned fool, but too few people see the emperor's clothes

How This Works

This page randomly selects and serves pre-generated farcical artist statements, many of which were created with computer assistance; for example by statistical sentence recombobulation: training an AI on actual IAE, then having it gurgitate similar stuff.

The statements, being AI-generated, are by nature (and if human-created, by dedication) in the Public Domain.

To get another statement, reload the page.

This "statement" is from this source file:

5yuX45RP56jVHAt6BNkt_generated_IAE_gibberish__2016_01_02__02_47_42__251291.txt

This page doubles as an API. To get a plain-text statement without this explanation, call the page with any GET variable declared, like this:

http://earthbound.io/data/gibberish-artist-statements/index.php?gib=florf

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