Art no competition

[Kai Frederik Lorentzen]

/They got a name for the winners in the world
I want a name when I lose
They call Alabama the Crimson Tide
Call me Deacon Blues

/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ck1N1I-LzWc/
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On 15.08.2012 13:08, bandwraith at aol.com wrote:
> May be one reason why the counterforce is doomed. Is it possible to 
> win by losing?
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> -----Original Message-----
> 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)
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> On 14.08.2012 21:14, Phillip Greenlief wrote:
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> 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
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> 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").
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> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christoph_Schlingensief
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