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yeah--i'm more or less the opposite. i basically agree with ms above, particularly regarding the way advertising complicates the matter of public/private space and to my mind invites reappropriations of "private" spaces as public. i suppose there are limits, if i think about what spaces i might see as suitable for some kind of transient art installation--i'm inclined to use the advertising thing as a litmus test--if there are adverts, it's public. if it's abandoned, it's public. if it's in a space of transit, it's public. by which i mean that the exterior walls are elements of a public sphere, a public space, and there's no argument to my mind that can or should stop graffiti--or anything else that generates these little temporary autonomous zones. but i wouldn't do residential spaces which did not invite it by advertising. so there's a line i wouldn't cross myself in general. so i suppose there's a line. there are exceptions i can imagine, but only in the context of specific actions or projects that would contain their own justification within them.
luckily for all, i suppose, pianists tend to be indoor plants.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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