hmm, yes. maybe that's why her own literary presentation engaging with so much of this has that artworldish… nonchalance about it, the kind you get where clearly everyone is swimming in money and the circulation of power and status and fashion games and it's all so hollow dahlink but of course that's just the way it is etc - i.e. any artworld phenomenon that's not accompanied by a (performance of a) really stringent critical attitude (not saying that this necessarily amounts to anything anyway) about the material conditions of its own existence or the material conditions of its milieu.
since her own performance has a kind of self-promotional, self-selling (because self-styling) quality to it, it can't help but imply an attitude, not an endorsement but kind of a non-non-endorsement, of the whole reigning idea of men being ready to sell you things. 'ok here i'll sell you something too'.
― j., Saturday, 22 August 2015 16:58 (eight years ago) link