Comments on: “Well… I guess that’s what you’d call ‘the conscious’.” http://fistfulofeuros.net/afoe/culture/well-i-guess-thats-what-youd-call-the-conscious/ European Opinion Thu, 20 Nov 2008 12:42:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Alex http://fistfulofeuros.net/afoe/culture/well-i-guess-thats-what-youd-call-the-conscious/#comment-20804 Alex Fri, 06 Jun 2008 09:07:05 +0000 http://fistfulofeuros.net/?p=3227#comment-20804 <em>“They keep on going on about the subconscious meaning. I don’t think it’s subconscious. It’s - what do they call that thing that’s above the subconscious.” “Well… I guess that’s what you’d call ‘the conscious’."</em> Which is why shrinks talk about the "pre-conscious conscious". “They keep on going on about the subconscious meaning. I don’t think it’s subconscious. It’s - what do they call that thing that’s above the subconscious.”

“Well… I guess that’s what you’d call ‘the conscious’.”

Which is why shrinks talk about the “pre-conscious conscious”.

]]> By: Richard Dutcher http://fistfulofeuros.net/afoe/culture/well-i-guess-thats-what-youd-call-the-conscious/#comment-20796 Richard Dutcher Fri, 06 Jun 2008 00:49:46 +0000 http://fistfulofeuros.net/?p=3227#comment-20796 I frequently go to museums with a photographer friend, and we also parse and complain about curation and wall texts. Ignorance, a-historicism, too much historicism, not getting the art, bad hanging choices - we've seen and bitched about it all. She puts enormous effort into the texts accompanying her own exhibitions. She gets especially angry about denial of agency - "she did it, but she didn't know what she was doing." That occasionally happens to male artists too, but it's almost the rule with the work of women (see Joanna Russ, "How to Suppress Women's Writing"). In cases like Bourgeois, it's also silly. I wish I could go to Paris to see the exhibition - hell, I wish I could go to Paris! I frequently go to museums with a photographer friend, and we also parse and complain about curation and wall texts. Ignorance, a-historicism, too much historicism, not getting the art, bad hanging choices - we’ve seen and bitched about it all. She puts enormous effort into the texts accompanying her own exhibitions.

She gets especially angry about denial of agency - “she did it, but she didn’t know what she was doing.” That occasionally happens to male artists too, but it’s almost the rule with the work of women (see Joanna Russ, “How to Suppress Women’s Writing”). In cases like Bourgeois, it’s also silly.

I wish I could go to Paris to see the exhibition - hell, I wish I could go to Paris!

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