The North Briton

Comments 6

1. DavidNcl wrote:

   How this must make ex pitmen trudging the keyside feel!

   God - it’s as if Thatch herself came to earth to grind the faces of the poor as she mocked them.

   Posted 27 Oct 2009 at 6:38 am |
2. grace the collie wrote:

   epic piss taking from the people palace of righteous art

   Posted 27 Oct 2009 at 7:10 am |
3. Pete wrote:

   Good points everybody! I mean, what where those left-wing Guardianistas thinking, bring the largest free contemporary gallery to the cultural vacuum of Gateshead? Those dumb proles would never get irony!

   Posted 27 Oct 2009 at 5:48 pm |
4. Peter Doroschenko wrote:

   Hmmm, very far from free actually:

   http://www.bbc.co.uk/insideout/northeast/series8/week5.shtml

   Dumb prole.

   Posted 28 Oct 2009 at 9:16 am |
5. Arthur Wragg wrote:

   I can imagine the meeting of curators when they decided on using that image. The drivel, the irony, the wankspeak.

   Alessandro is he still there? It has him written all over it and that Canadian with the homemade pants.

   Posted 28 Oct 2009 at 10:31 am |
6. DavidNcl wrote:

   It’s not an art gallery.

   All “art” funded by looted money stolen from workers by states can be dismissed as a) illegitimate and b) serving the aims of the ruling elite of that state. Typically its function is to manufacture a hegemonic discourse for a ruling elite.

   Which is precisely why Pete dismisses you as not understanding the irony* of it. Its function is to be not “understood” or “got” by those outside the ruling elite. Of course, in order for it to have this function (of establishing a kind of thought crime) it has to be inherently “un-gettable” and thus getting of it is a largely symbolic or ritualistic act—which may well be extremely arduous and convoluted rituals such as having one’s rational thought processes damaged by state “intellectuals” in a state “university”.

   Posted 29 Oct 2009 at 3:26 pm |

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