Art no competition (was: Re: Borges, Woolf)

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May be one reason why the counterforce is doomed. Is it possible to win 
by losing?


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From: Kai Frederik Lorentzen <lorentzen at hotmail.de>
To: Phillip Greenlief <pgsaxo at pacbell.net>; pynchon -l 
<pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Wed, Aug 15, 2012 6:41 am
Subject: Art no competition (was: Re: Borges, Woolf)



On 14.08.2012 21:14, Phillip Greenlief wrote:



art isn't a competition - i don't care who wins the latest literary 
pissing contest, or who did what first, i am interested in the work


Makes me think of Christoph Schlingensief who said "art does not know 
any winners and so I call off this event right now", when he was to 
proclaim the winner of the 'Publikumspreis der Nationalgalerie für 
Junge Kunst' in Berlin in September 2005 ("Kunst kennt keine Sieger, 
also breche ich die Veranstaltung ab").

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christoph_Schlingensief