很久沒有讀到de duve的新文章,新一篇看到的,結尾竟然是以beuys作結,知de duve一直對beuys看法而言,這在開頭仍有點骨外,到底在政治上,藝術的見解還是會殊途同歸的話,這幾令我興奮鼓舞.

We should ask ourselves why Beuys had up to six hundred students lapping up his words at the Duesseldorf Academy. He spoke to them only when he held public discussions at documenta. Perhaps the art school of the future will not necessarily be an institution made of bricks and run by an appointed team of professionals, but nothing more or less than a mode of transmission of art addressed to everyone as if they were all artists.

(中文翻譯版遲d再在wooferten上post.)

Even the bourgeois conception of art reifies the work (via the market) on the one hand, on the other, judges it (via the aesthetic) for the way it manifests this faculty of producing value …
Creativity is to the cultural field what labor power is to the field of political economy. …
With Beuys, that is why the translation attempted here is so easy – the two fields precisely overlap – and this is what signals to us that their dialectic is over.
- Thierry de Duve