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Untitled, AP Gorny<\/p><\/div>\n

I had breakfast with AP Gorny this morning in Buffalo. His philosophy of art is almost perfectly antithetical to mine, and yet I love talking with someone who can maintain an amiable and perceptive disagreement with me. As William Blake said, “Opposition is true friendship.” He teaches printmaking at Buffalo State University, and he’s a bit of a spark plug when you get him going about the art establishment. I’ll do a post from our talk when I have time to digest it–the conversation ranges far and wide with AP and you realize what he’s giving you is a description of experiences from the perspective outlined in this statement he handed to me, which follows. He’s all about how to be an artist by breaking out of the\u00a0 paradigm of “success” that gets promulgated by nearly everyone in authority. The question of how one manages to keep eating, while righteously pursuing failure, remains a thorny one, I’d say, but I have to admit it’s hard to find fault with what he says here:<\/p>\n

From Gorny’s Interdisciplinary Approach to Failure<\/em><\/p>\n

At this point, in this world I inhabit,
\nmy life is afoot with a program of dismantling
\nthe logic of success\/failure.<\/p>\n

Artists put themselves
\nin circumstances purposefully failing,
\nlosing, forgetting, unmaking, undoing,
\nunbecoming, and not knowing.
\nIn other words, offering creative, cooperative,
\nsurprising, unexpected ways of being in the world.
\nThese particular forms of failure
\nare more attractive to me than
\nconventional forms of success,
\nwith ambiguous & wide-rainging consequences.<\/p>\n

Providing me with a critique of standardized wisdom-production models
\ndisseminated in university settings that just serve to re-inforce cultural
\nstatus quo, I daily propose in appropriate (or inappropriate!)
\ncircumstances, that forgetting and losing knowledge (and all those coded
\nmessages of affluence and success) can lead to developing ideas by way of
\nsuch a cultural amnesia.<\/p>\n

My interdisciplinary approach to failure, obviously leads to problems,
\nnot just in awful academia; it opens a morass negotiating daily life. But I
\njust say: Like a plumber’s work, it’s a dirty job, but somebody has to do it.<\/em><\/p>\n

–AP Gorny\u00a0 11.11.11<\/p>\n

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