[[akademie-X]], [[Christopher Williams]]
Lesson 35 - No Plexiglas, No Electricity, No Humour; or Love is Colder Than Death, page 36
PAYING ATTENTION TO OTHERS - Pay attention to what other artists are doing. It gets harder and harder as the amount of art being produced keeps growing, but it’s super important to know what your colleagues are up to. To be able to think about the present historically, you have to look at as much as you can right now. There’s a more social aspect to it as well, which is that, if you expect people to pay attention to your work, you need to pay attention to theirs… artists such as John Baldessari and Ed Ruscha continue to go to galleries every month, getting to know younger artists and constantly looking at other people’s work.
It’s important to absorb as much information as possible but then to think through your materials.