Having only a phrase-book understanding of that tongue, I wasn’t sure what the answer was to the question “Everybody seems to be creating models of art-making that are based on schools – what’s the deal, and why is this bandwagon a good one?”

It seems that, aside from ideas of inclusiveness, community-involvement, breaking down the artist-as-solo-practitioner-on-a-mountaintop (which seem like potentially good things) that the school-as-artform model has a couple of serious issues: it’s unwieldy, it requires more support, it sucks the dick of the “School is Where You Learn Art” paradigm that gets us all such massive debt and MFAs, etc.

Another, perhaps more interesting issue, is that once art becomes a teaching event, it is constrained by the duration/scope of that event; I can get the same experience from painting X now that I could when it was first made, and even get something from a reproduction of it in a book; it’s harder to get something from a non-object artwork that ceases to exist once its social structure is disassembled (ie pedagogical factory) – So does this breaking down of the artwork-as-object make it more accessible (including people normally outside of the art bubble) or less accessible (limiting its impact to ‘those there then’). ??

There are those who think that life
Has nothing left to chance
With a host of holy horrors
To direct our aimless dance

A planet of playthings
We dance on the strings
Of powers we cannot perceive
The stars arent aligned —
Or the gods are malign
Blame is better to give than receive

You can choose a ready guide
In some celestial voice
If you choose not to decide
You still have made a choice

You can choose from phantom fears
And kindness that can kill
I will choose a path thats clear
I will choose free will

There are those who think that theyve been dealt a losing hand
The cards were stacked against them —
They werent born in lotus-land

All preordained
A prisoner in chains
A victim of venomous fate
Kicked in the face
You cant pray for a place
In heavens unearthly estate

Each of us
A cell of awareness
Imperfect and incomplete
Genetic blends
With uncertain ends
On a fortune hunt
Thats far too fleet…

Rush can be found at

http://www.rush.com/

http://www.art-neutopia.org/

Yep, the design that everyone wanted was a slick soft future-modern glass look and thats why they are transparent till you mouse over.