07 February 2010
ranciere interview! going free!
I interviewed Jacques Ranciere the other day before his talk at Whitechapel Gallery (among other gems from his talk: 'I could be a curator! You put one object zere, another one zere, a table and then you have a show!'). It isn't very long (perhaps 4-5000 words, I haven't transcribed it yet). It currently doesn't have a home. I could just put it up here when I have time, but I thought someone might want it for some student magazine or whathaveyou. I didn't ask him about art at all: I mainly asked him about pedagogy, the internet and human nature. Can't promise his answers (or rather what had to say in order to respond to my ill-worked-out questions) are earth-shattering, but he's pretty good on defending the internet from snobby French elitists who get upset about kids reading classic texts 'in the wrong order'. I tried to ask him about pornography, as I thought that might have some interesting relation to the whole idea of the supposdly 'passive' spectator which he attacks in The Emancipated Spectator, but he didn't have anything to say, really. Shame!
UPDATE: It's going to ephemera, a good, free online journal who are concerned with 'theoretical and political aspects of organizations, organization and organizing'. I happen to be rubbish at organising anything, but I'm happy that it'll end up somewhere open to everyone. Now to find the time to transcribe it!
