I can't believe people complained about providing that paltry sum for an art project. Art is so under rated & under funded. & unfortunately the only art that's funded conforms to the narrative du jour.. No one who is super creative /original gets far (with some rare . exceptions).I guess one who is a true radical has to fly their radicalism under the radar until they get into the public consciousness & then they can let loose. ( Kanye).
I like your thinking. I was 17 when I saw the choice one would have to make, you learn the craft, there's not much to it, but it can be perfected, but no perfect craft over comes a bad idea. The choice between radicalism, root, advance garde, pro active defense as attack, or stick with padding out the rich's culture insulation. I appreciate that most find a compromise in the middle, hiding their Democratic Socialist values while taking bribes, doing shitting biz with the capitalists, they've got us on the run, but we are still the true bank, and their simulated one, still is our servant, if we wish it to be. So far us radical root artists, have been sleeping. The woke are calling out for something new. I am something new, something old, something scary to the establishment, because I will not bow down. I am A Democratic Socialist Public Welfare Community Conceptualist. And no, I can not make that smaller, when you do you hide your true economics, who is your master, who owns your nuts. Will you lie down and do battle for that which you are aware is not the good guys,... that sort of thing. Art is still dangerous even bad in-appropriate art, for it speaks where there needs to be voices, for not what it says, but what we can say about it, which is different from how we feel about it, or what we think about it. I am some kind of rare exception. But not because there are not millions like me, just that we are made invisible irrelevant by our bully enemy. Their power is our power, simply take it back and watch them shrink, and fade away. New dawn, The new right party, "We're sometimes wrong" (Kanye)
Creative New Zealand and NZ on Air are representative of the planned economy and the way in which centrally planned distribution of resources is less democratic than the market economy.
the market economy is not democratic so how can CNZ/ NZ on Air be less democratic? They also don't 'identify' publicly as democratic so for the most part they already perpetuate a capitalist dominated market economy.
@@ArtAristocracy Voting with my dollar is tenfold more democratic than having my dollar lifted and channelled by a committee like Creative New Zealand. The second is the essence of socialist planning. In a market economy resources are allocated via demand not distributed by a panel. They're not perpetuating capitalism, they're a concession to completely opposing ideology.
Oh look it's Tao Wells, intolerable art poseur turned intolerable antivax poseur. "Pseudo-art or Pseudo-science, a Conceptual-Democratic Mastubatory Plinth" by Tao Wells, 2000 and something. Is his name really "Tao"? Embarrassing if so, because he's so full of the proverbial. Now based in: Dunedin, where he "bravely" critiques Capitialism by not doing anything remotely confrontational about the power of Capitalism, posts antivax memes and occasionally other Protest Memes featuring logical or factual inaccuracies.
Funny how they can't name ONE successful experiment in socialism out of THOUSANDS of experiments, large and small, that have EVER lasted longer than 60 years without collapsing, turning to capitalism or cannibalizing other systems around it to survive. And they push this crap as PROGRESS?
@@ArtAristocracy Capitalism embraces meritocracy, the most skilled, gifted and hard working occupy positions of wealth and power, and receive the most benefits out of it.
@@ArtAristocracy socialism is a phylosophy and not an economic model/system, that's why it never have worked and never will. That said, as a phylosophy it can enrich our lives and should be a part of any modern countries policies.
Awesome korero I am also watching this clip over and over again very strengthening for anyone encountering common issues that still exist to this day and age can apply the same concepts today.
".. they take the money, they take the money but do not front up to the public in that role of a University lecturer. As an intellectual of the State. As someone who actually maintains the standards, in teaching, of what art is. They are the 'mainstream', that's their job, to keep the standards. And they need to be visibly recognized as the people who "keep the standards', we need to be able to criticize them. Are they visible in that role? No. "- Tao Wells
" Lorde drops a bomb, saying of the NZ On Air logo, “You know how much negative power that logo has for my generation?”" 5000ways.co.nz/asides/the-logo-and-the-damage-done/
That's dumb to desperately try to stick to the term socialism while describing completely new (new to the so called developed world) form of economic activity. If he wants to genuinely advance the cause of worker coops (including open ended worker coops) he needs to immediately stop using the word socialism, which has blood of 100 million people stained all over it, and stop confusing (or disinfoing??) the public
Worker co-ops don't replace Marxism. but build off and leverage its theories about surplus capital to the workers advantage. The UK is where worker co-ops are well developed .
"I publicized that I was a beneficiary, that I was getting Creative New Zealand money and I was making art that was (apparently) doing dangerous critical ideas about society, why can't they do that, why can't they say "Hi, I'm going to Venice (art biennale) and I work for Auckland University" straight up, that should be a point of pride. They should have some respect and some celebration for the fact that they are doing a good job, which they are, they are actually doing the job, they're just not promoting it to the public. And by not letting the public know, they're not inviting the argument, they're not getting the discussion to happen at a broad enough level that really needs to be happening. And unfortunately you just have to weather that storm of, of stupidity, 'oh you're not allowed to do a goat or a donkey in a dunny'. You have to weather the cheep shot to get penetration, to get all the ideas that are attached to a 'goat' or a 'donkey in a toilet' (et.al's piece). You have to weather the storm, the brunt of sensational aspect of anything, so that the rest of your ideas, like truck and trailer can actually pass through the layers of society. They're not doing that and that's a real problem". - quote
There is no such thing as child poverty in New Zealand! If you live within your means, you can live a very comfortable lifestyle even on a benefit from the government, I think most of the children that are shown to be in these situations of not enough food or clothing come down to the parent or parents having put there habits before there children such as smoking drinking gambling, they even now have started supplying breakfast and in some cases lunch to children at schools, this makes me sick to think that parents are not giving there children food over there addictions or life styles.
Daryl Keenan you miss the point entirely. This is not about a few people making bad decisions. This is a systemic behavior that enforces discrimination based on levels of wealth. The 'bad decisions' are calculated into a measure of control exerted by the state. For example you can get welfare payments to pay for a TV, but not for going to the gym.
the research found that over 80 percent of New Zealand’s poor were children, their parents and others living in their households. Moreover it found that child poverty was much more widespread than today’s conventional image that the typical poor household is a brown, a solo-parent beneficiary, in rental accommodation. In fact: there are more pakeha than Maori and Pasifika who are poor; there are more in two-adult families than solo-parent families who are poor; there are more dependent on wages than benefits who are poor; there are more in their own homes (typically with a mortgage) than in rental accommodation who are poor. www.eastonbh.ac.nz/2012/08/a-background-to-our-understanding-of-child-poverty-in-new-zealand/
Good research Tao, sounds like our generation, be good to see a similar report around the obscene disparity now opening up clearly visible in the housing market.
