...full of self-centered, egotistical cocksuckers. Sorry, Junior year blues. Had to vent. Does anyone have a remedy for this? How do you deal with narrow-minded fascists like Linda Connor? How do you deal with the scowls and grunts and castration? With the endlessy inane conceptual bullshit? With nauseating, cold-blooded critiques? With an ever-dwindling budget? What do you say about a 20-by-24 print of someone's erect penis, or close-ups of a girl's hairy vagina covered in chicken fat? Am I in the fucking twilight zone or what? To all you alumni: Help, please? Am i wasting my time and energy? Or will this insanity actually be worth it some day?
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Unsu...
Re: HELP! SFAI is fucking money-trap...
Tue, May 3, 2005 - 4:34 PMSounds like it already is working. You think it sucks at SFAI wait for life in the art world, it's worse.
But this is what will make you strong.
Daniel
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Tue, May 3, 2005 - 6:49 PMThanks for getting me all revved up for another summer out there!
To me dicks and pussies are the easy out in art. Go for the shock, whats the real point? Banal crap... -
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Re: HELP! SFAI is fucking money-trap...
Wed, May 4, 2005 - 3:57 AMUse your finical aid to keep high, Shock by being boreing, agatate shit on campus, Make-up lies and make them true... Spin Baby. Take over your classes yell at those who are making shit, getting A's.
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Wed, May 4, 2005 - 12:15 PMit is so hard to live in that black hole...the voices screaming, fighting, trying to make a point, each with a voice and point of view that is louder than the other...the searching for someone in art history to hold on to...ah, yes, I remember those days...until one day it just stopped...it just died...nothing...the grand finale...I didn't know what art was anymore...there was no one else to ask. All of this in the middle of grad school at sfai.
But as I sat in the darkness I discovered a pin prick of light... coming out of me. I first played with it, then learned how to move it around. Most people, when they saw it, felt blinded, asked me to turn it off, asked me to deflect it towards another direction. It didn't fit with their understanding of light, or their history of light, or the true uses of light. They didn't see the light the way I did, our perspectives from two different points...r and q. Sitting in classes became an experience in group psychoanalysis... and I was the therapist.
I have since taken this experience with me into the larger art arena where it is the same but only larger. I have learned to define what art is for me, which might not be art for you.
You have entered the black hole. Hang in there...it's about to get interesting...
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Thu, May 5, 2005 - 11:17 AMThanks, guys. I think I was going through some sort of temporary insanity there. Things are getting better. -
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Sat, May 21, 2005 - 11:27 AMAbout half way through my 3.5 years at SFAI, I felt like "what's the point?"
I was feeling restless and frustrated... but the second half of JR year and my entire SR year were amazing. Mostly because SFAI is so open and loose that you can really work the program however you want. Ignore the assholes who beg for attention, and do your thang.
What program are you in anyway? I don't remember it being so inane when I was there...
IF you haven't already,
you need to work with:
Timothy Berry (etching, drawing to print, multiplicity seminar)
-He let me register for a winter intensive w/ him, I got credit but instead of going to the class I went and studied in INdonesia for a month... under the SFAI radar...
plus he's fucking hilarious!
Sharon Grace (History of NG, Site specific)
-she's a little crazy, but so smart and so supportive. Plus she wrote me the most stellar letter of recommendation for Grad school. We used to spend hours on the phone together mulling over artist statements etc...
OH YEAH and don't forget,
AVOID JOHN RUBIN LIKE THE PLAGUE!!!
he's a fuckin' asshole.
My friend Sarah Edwards is still in school there. She's sweet, make friends with her if you are drowning in a sea of assholes.
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Re: HELP! SFAI is fucking money-trap...
Fri, May 6, 2005 - 2:27 PMThis is the easy part, wait till the real world, it's worse, the art sucks. What you need to learn is what is important to you. Cold blooded bullshit.
When I went to SFAI, I did right wing art, boy I had so much fun pissing asshole off big time. Hit these assholes where they cannot think, in there heads. Be overly sickningly sweat and good to Linda Conner. Then tell her in the nicest way you can to get fucked, Hey Linda I have heard some talk around campus I think you need to know about, people are saying your a cunt. I'm not one of them "I like You" Send around a petision asking people not to hate Linda, get no one sign it.
