Is the art world guided by "an invisible hand"
- or has it become "economics of regulation"?
The problem in art was the turn around the sixties:
- controversial art became investment -
that makes the natural "going viral" more problematic
So the question is :
Has the Avant-Garde become an institution?
institutionalized = established = linked with status & investment.
- Should art be risk investment by nature?
Do critics always have the freedom of speech?
- An artist's career can show ups and downs - do critics have the freedom to discuss this when status investment gets involved?
And if contemporary art has become institutionalized.
- What about the artist training?
Are art students to be trained to adopt an attitude towards an art market - and the institutions that go with it? (art marketing?)
Art is creating artefacts and giving meaning to artefacts while the true meaning (why someone created the artefact) is anyway hurled. In most cases to the artist him-/herself too.
Lately there was a symposium in Karlsruhe. One of the speaker (forgive me for I forgot his name) I brought it to the point quoting this from a gnostic text:
Who were we? What have we become? Where have we been? Where have we thrown into?Where do we fly? What are we free from? What is birth? What is rebirth?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=DE&v=pBKh6dVZ6yM&hl=de
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