Province by passing.
There is a yearning of artists for the province. They live in the metropolitan. To do something there where no new time is, away from the white cube galleries, the hurly-burly, the everyday, the pressure of avant-garde. The promise, that in the province, the emperor is far. They dream to make own provinces, like minor literature. Or like side-space, an attic.
Province is a mask. Under it is the fear of loosing and the disgust of success in an unsympathetic scene.
Provinces are off the road. It’s cheaper to fly to the far away metropolitan than by train to the nearest province. In the cities you more often get visited by friends. And it’s easier to share some thoughts on the art. Provincial artists are as boring as stubborn. In the city they are as boring as cool.
That’s very the saying of one of my small town professors came from: do not allow the provincial, but it was a closed circuit.
Creating infrastructure, fresh places, the serious problem of laymen having just very little use of art, for all that we don’t need the province.
But is a more global issue, that urbanity and the public is shrinking much faster in the province than in big city areas? How does that fit with the aesthetic group of seeing and using province as a Petri dish, a remote island of a chamber play where whole society is in a focus? Where the cruelties of society have a backdrop of harmony and the idyllic?
Province starts after fifteen minutes tram ride.
Province that is youtube, wikipedia, flickr, myspace. It’s the opposite of having a webpage where nothing is moving and you can’t click.
Province is a mask. Under it is the fear of loosing and the disgust of success in an unsympathetic scene.
Provinces are off the road. It’s cheaper to fly to the far away metropolitan than by train to the nearest province. In the cities you more often get visited by friends. And it’s easier to share some thoughts on the art. Provincial artists are as boring as stubborn. In the city they are as boring as cool.
That’s very the saying of one of my small town professors came from: do not allow the provincial, but it was a closed circuit.
Creating infrastructure, fresh places, the serious problem of laymen having just very little use of art, for all that we don’t need the province.
But is a more global issue, that urbanity and the public is shrinking much faster in the province than in big city areas? How does that fit with the aesthetic group of seeing and using province as a Petri dish, a remote island of a chamber play where whole society is in a focus? Where the cruelties of society have a backdrop of harmony and the idyllic?
Province starts after fifteen minutes tram ride.
Province that is youtube, wikipedia, flickr, myspace. It’s the opposite of having a webpage where nothing is moving and you can’t click.
Welcome to www.buero-schwimmer.de, a provincial office in the metropolitan.
Sven Eggers, Berlin
