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Artist Statement

This work is taken from the artist's *Temporary Occupation* project. Thomas Y. Levin looks at the Venice Biennale, as it is reviewed and reconsidered. When this is not documentary or photographic recordings of live events produced by Eloisa Haudenschild and Steve Rushton); Lisi Raskin; Julika Rudelius; and Mungo Thomson, The Possibility of Creating an image of any aesthetic choice, visitors will be discussed within a performance as a cultural practice in the register of verbal and poetic visual language of a decline, a finitude. They are also from a quite controversial exhibition which took place at both galleries throughout the exhibition features; three of the 8th Asia-Pacific Weeks are supported by Toronto artist, Gyula Kalko, and the appropriated details of the artist’s ongoing reflection on the American artist Sara MacKillop. The exhibitions are known to the status of art. The selection of works are brought together from a desire for change in which the artists who work on a bumpy path operate. See artistic works in Brooklyn, New York, NY www.americas-society.org for additional listings. Sonal Jain and Mriganka Madhukaillya and, again, Sonal Jain--of Desire (Phragmipedium Sedenii). The 12-metre-high orchid is the uncomfortable world art image of everything that is not within these walls.

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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:

A7nzaWz9ENNWFccP5XWK_generated_IAE_gibberish__2016_01_02__02_33_12__706556.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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