Chapter 2, Process by Steve Duncombe and Steve Lambert Quotes;
1.) "Our creativity won't thrive if the only time we make for it is an occasional weekend, or between phone calls, emails, and "important" messages." (page 54)
I was reading this right after thinking to myself, man I don't make enough time for myself to do things that let me express myself, my hobbies, my projects, nothing. Truly if you don't give your creativity the time and dedication is needs it will not go anywhere, your message won't go anywhere. and it is wasted potential.
2.) "We all fear the embarrassment of letting an idea into the world before it is ready, and this makes us more likely to be excessively critical and allow few ideas, if any, through the evaluation stage." (page 70)
I think this can be taken many of ways but in the sense of it being for artists or creators it is something that is not taken lightly. The fear of judgement is already there, the fear of not being ready is as well always there. If you allow yourself to get in your head about something, it isn't going to help your creative process. Giving criticism is giving people motivation.
3.) "“Sometimes your creativity will result in something great, and sometimes in epic failure, and if you practice really hard, it will most often result in something good enough.” (page 83)
As an artist you must trust the creative process and all in it. You will not always have the best or be the best, but you will not always fail if you give it the time and dedication is needs and deserves. I feel this quote kind of ties together my other quotes.
Towards a Curatorial Activism | Dr. Maura Reilly ;
1.) "Instead of being disheartened by the sad reality, it is perhaps more productive to be proactively antithetical: to misbehave, to talk back, while dedicating ourselves to disrupting the hegemonic discourse from within by showing the gaps in representation, ‘the blind spots, or the space-off, of its representations'." (page 14) This quote really struck me, "to misbehave, to talk back" to rebel basically against what you know in order to create change.
2.) "Indeed, the more closely one examines art world statistics, the more glaringly obvious it becomes that, despite the decades of postcolonial, feminist, anti-racist, and queer activism and theorising, the ‘majority’ continues to be defined as white, Euro-American, heterosexual, privileged and, above all, male." Unfortunately most of todays artworks, art shows, museums etc are indeed mostly curated or done by white men, and although there is so much change in society, it seems to be this is the way and it does not attract a lot of newer people.
What is Curatorial Activism? by Dr. Maura Reilly;
1.) "“Curatorial Activism” is a term I use to designate the practice of organizing art exhibitions with the principle aim of ensuring that certain constituencies of artists are no longer ghettoized or excluded from the master narratives of art." I choose this quote because I feel like it is important to know what curational activism is, even if it's a definition in ways from someone's own experience. The master narrative of art being that of white privilege males making anything that isn't what they are not the norm. I like the way the term "ghettoized" is used.
2.) "It demands that we resist masculinism and sexism, confront white privilege and Western-centrism, and challenge hetero-centrism and lesbo-homophobia. It insists that there is a moral emergency in the art world; indeed, there has been for a long time. While Other artists have made progress since the 1970s, the statistics remain quite grim." There are many artists today making a name for themselves and changing and breaking barriers through art activism and curational activism. Unfortunately there is still a lot work to be done.
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