Plymouth Art Weekender and the notion of a general strike ????

this s I suppose a little after thought from ' the Cornish art scene ' previous post !

so we have just had the so called Plymouth art weekender …..

and here is the thing ,so I was going on about silly little art collectives spread out all over the counties and each one full of ' handmade silver ' and 'decorative ceramics' or worse !!

the handmade silver as intricate and pleasing to the eye as some of it is , its all wholesale silver from fucking india or god knows where …. even though these two counties in particular sit on some substantial silver ore deposits , indeed you can wander over the mineral spoils of many of the old tin mines and find all manner of geological debris … including reasonable quantities of Galena ….

the ceramicists are all buying special ' artists quality ' materials, again whole sale from china or whatever just straight off of Etsy … exactly the same as the indian / Mexican silver !!

its bizarre to me quite what we manage to call a functioning economy in this country !!!

o.k so all of this cheap wholesale ' material ' is being shipped n from abroad , and the revenue that is noted as ' overheads ' are all directed out of the country … can any one see the flaw here ??
we have set things up very nicely for the agent of those commodities … but the producer of the original raw material ? or the practitioner that alters that raw material ??

this is exactly how the so called Plymouth art weekender works !!

look at the signage !!! PLYMOUTH ART WEEKENDER  …. and it is festooned with supporting logos of similarly scaled arrogance !!

the arts council / lottery funded / Plymouth city council / the royal academy ….. on and on it goes !! a load of government endorsed / government funded / government censored / government promoted bourgeois crap just posing as culture behind some logos

its a fuckin savage vantage for an independent anything these days … and as the age of madness rolls from the Reagan / thatcher years and on to bush / blair years  and straight through to where we are now …. right now !! the Trump / Theresa era of this particular farce ! as we are all strangled by overpriced property and a bad economic projection , as wages disintegrate and the value of the sterling remains utterly laughable  …. and yet the addiction to the syllabus is seemingly contagious....  !!

stop fucking complying with this shit …. if the council … any council are offering ' funding for the arts ' right now … then why cant we afford suitable social housing ?! why cant we afford suitable social provision ?? why the last time I had a doctors appointment to have a large shard of glass taken out of my foot was I brow beaten over the inevitable cost of such a procedure ….. so artists … all of those of you grappling with the notion as the perpetual identity crisis that it is , do a fucking art thing !!! personally I cant find the time to apply for the huge varying scale of all of these ' helpful resources' ( and from my experience from the field its always someones daughter or niece or cousin that gets ushered through these processes leaving fuck all for serious venture )

but if you do have the time to sit and sift through the extra government forms , or if you know someone that knows someone that can help you get that little bit of funding ( first of all take a good fucking look at yourself _) and then take that government money and go and build some tiny houses /get out there and engage with people in a way that they wouldn't ordinarily expect …. throw a ' happening ' … because if you are taking ' government ' money in this age of disgraceful austerity … and you are getting your posters done and buying some cheap chardonnay for the ' grand opening ' …. you are a fucking asshole , and if your calling yourself ' artists ' …. and Theresa may is calling herself a prime minister … then I am just going to sit here and play with dinosaurs and intentionally not comply with a single fucking facet of this public masturbate 'o' thon

as I have said before for me using art as a vocation was my means of general strike … and I have been considering myself in that state more or less since blair and bushes mad max middle east operations …. you see architecture and urban planning are absolutely worth protesting ( I can attest to that first and ) - education , both the quality and the price are absolutely contestable , the price of simple rental accommodation !! privatisation of public sector … the systematic deteriation of those sectors to enable the principle idea of private fucking enterprise taking over in the first place

and now the arts … yes even the arts , in its white washed asshole paradigm of arrogance that it currently exudes ! as mentioned in my previous post about the Cornish art scene .. the street artists really did a thing ! arrogant asshole galleries that were so high on their own money laundering pretense or private investments … weren't exhibiting any of the ' vandalism ' at the time … and so people without a venue option , displayed their work anyway …. some of them were just competently done pretty pictures ( some of which were very intricate ) a public c.v if you like  just wanting to get a commission for some mural in some bar , restaurant or hotel … but others were doing something extra ordinary … and this is where banksy and the now completely institutionalised ' street artists ' originated … as a protest movement … not just about the stilted and nepotistic gallery scene .. but about the greyness of the environment , the constant surveillance , the rise of the police state and the impending doom of us all …..

so now even the arts are worthy of protest , but lets be clear … only the corporate edged , government endorsed horse shit that is peddled ….  there is still actual art out there … its getting harder and harder to find , that cannot be denied …. but like a treasure hunt , the more erroneous journeys can often be the more rewarding …. so get out there and find your self the sunray Kelly's of the world, and tell everyone else to fuck off x