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The Good, The Bad, and The …
Thursday, 24 June 2004 – Sunday, 11 July 2004
Challenging their own convictions, and risking the end of their careers, 8 artists grapple with the fundamental question “What makes an Artwork Good or Bad?”
By exhibiting a work they would never dream of showing, and a work they can’t wait to show, questions of authenticity and aesthetic judgements are raised that confuse or compound the fundamentals of creative practice
Daniel Lehan
Sometimes you look at old work, and think, well actually, it isn’t as bad as I once thought, in
John Hayward
I find it very confusing and highly worrying that the good and the bad works may not be distinguishable from each other.
Daedalus
The concept of ‘Taste’ was only invented in the 18th Century. Mae West, actress, raconteur and bain of the film censors famously said, “When I’m good I’m very, very good, but when I’m bad I’m better.”
Lucia Cipriano
Bad for whom? Good for what? Do good? Be bad? Good for nothing! We’ll wrangle it and mix it up a bit. Scramble and reverse it with a summersault or two just to make it tastier. Cartesian dualism – I like a dare!
Ruth Catlow
In his lecture series on ‘ugliness’ Mark Cousins said that something is ugly or bad purely by virtue of it being in the wrong place: the alien monster’s drool on your neck, the long hairs sprouting from a woman’s chin.
Shane Bradford
The very nature of this show challenges your authority as an artist. Questioning authority is usually something art is good at, so it’s a healthy exercise to turn the spotlight in on ourselves, even if it has given me a headache.
Neil Taylor
By virtue of being honest, right, proper, commendable, excellent, or just plain adequate a work of art is deemed to be good. A dictionary describes bad as ‘the opposite of good’ and then goes on to say, ill, evil and wicked. Very troubling indeed.
Harriet Murray
How do we decide if