Re: RAT There's nothing wrong with being elitist....

[schedlinski <schedlinski@yahoo.com>]

I agree with Skip in the general sense about how he
reads Artaud, but would add that the 'clinging' is
carried on to this day -- while we don't want to sit
around and try to write ibsen plays, we should neither
be too proud of our own work nor too infatuated with
anyone else's that we mistake them for masterpieces. I
think what we can draw from Artaud is the fleeting,
the momentary, and the limited scope of art (one of
the reasons he works so well as an antidote to the
culture industry -- once something is on film and
showed across the courntry - no matter how 'good' it
is - it has been calcified into a dead thing). That
being said, the rhetoric we are bouncing around trying
to define a masterpiece seems for the most part
self-serving. I can't say honestly that I know, in any
practical sense, what "an expression which is timeless
and also without comparison in it's {sic} genre"
means.  I think we are better suited on this list to
talk more frankly about what we are trying to do,
rather than shoot for the moon by saying what we
believe a masterpiece to be.

rm schedlinski


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