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MTAA’s creative practice
While M.River posts happy i-love-everybody posts about the new year I’m here to rant.
I’m not really sure what Roberta Smith is going on about with this column:
Another lamentable creeping usage is not only pretentious, but it distorts and narrows what artists do. I refer to — rather than reference — the word practice, as in “Duchamp’s practice,” “Picasso’s studio practice” and worst of all, especially from the mouths of graduate students, “my practice.” Things were bad enough in the 1980s, when artists sometimes referred to their work as “production,” but at least that had a kind of grease-monkey grit to it.
The MTAA Reference Resource (MTAA-RR) attempts to archive most information regarding the art duo MTAA’s creative PRACTICE.
It turns the artist into an utterly conventional authority figure. (emphasis mine)
[…] there’s the implication that artists, like lawyers, doctors and dentists, need a license to practice. (emphasis mine)
[…] the implication that an artist, like a doctor, lawyer or dentist, is trained to fix some external problem. It depersonalizes the urgency of art making and gives it an aura of control, as if it is all planned out ahead of time.
It suggests that art making is a kind of white-collar activity whose practitioners don’t get their hands dirty, either physically or emotionally.
13. to exercise or pursue as a profession, art, or occupation: to practice law.