matthew fuller on 27 Jun 2000 12:56:40 -0000 |
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[Nettime-bold] harwood@mongrel - new web site |
UNCOMFORTABLE PROXIMITY The Tate Gallery has just published their first web-site commission, from Harwood - a member of Mongrel. The site is an exploration of the Tate collection, the history of Millbank and its prison, and a reversioning of the Tate's web site. 'From adolescence I had visited the Tate, read the Art books and generally pulled a forelock in the direction of the cult of genius, on cue relegating my own creativity to the Victorian image of the rabid dog. We know well enough that this was how it was supposed to be. The historical literature on 'rational recreations' states that, in reforming opinion, museums were envisaged as a means of exposing the working classes to the improving mental influence of middle class culture. I was being innoculated for the cultural health of the nation.' 'I have tried in this collection to play with the broken links within the Tate's collection, grafting on the skins of people who are close to me, dragging parts of the collection through the mud of the Thames, and infecting some of it with a relevant disease. This is a personal response to the cultural attitudes that I found within the aura of the collection.' Go to http://www.tate.org.uk/home/default.htm/ Harwood's site will launch in a seperate window behind the home page of the Tate. To go directly to the Harwood de Mongrel site: http://www.tate.org.uk/webart/mongrel/home/default.htm/ Three contexualising essays by Matthew Fuller have been commissioned by the Tate to accompany this and a forthcoming site by Simon Patterson: http://www.tate.org.uk/webart/ _______________________________________________ Nettime-bold mailing list Nettime-bold@nettime.org http://www.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-bold