The negative space
How negative can you handle it? Sure we can put on a show which allows us to inhabit some dark places, Bad Detective style. We can listen to Claire Bishop and make art that uses ‘negative’ social relations - authoritarianism, exploitation etc. As long as we have a safe word and we consent I suppose. But what about the boring smaller tastes of negativity, the annoyances, the insecurities, the freak outs, the antipathy, the rejection, the resentment. How do we acknowledge these ‘unproductive’ things. And not just in the embrace uncertainty and failure cliche. How do we handle the loathing and the apathy and all that?
