{"id":11334,"date":"2015-11-01T23:34:27","date_gmt":"2015-11-01T23:34:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/finally-if-the-question-is-do-artists-need-to\/"},"modified":"2015-11-01T23:34:27","modified_gmt":"2015-11-01T23:34:27","slug":"finally-if-the-question-is-do-artists-need-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/finally-if-the-question-is-do-artists-need-to\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Finally, if the question is \u2018do artists need to read such-and-such\u2019 type of literature, the answer is definitely \u2018no.\u2019 You never know where ideas come from. I believe in chaos for answers. And the most important thing today, when our tastes are calculated by algorithms, is to find things that you are not looking for. It is always good to follow something that you are not looking for, because if you are looking for something then you are just narrowing, narrowing, narrowing your own perspective. If you only listen to Beyonc\u00e9 you will only listen to Beyonc\u00e9 at the end. It is the same for theory, the same for ideas, the same for any material that we need as artists, or curators, or viewers to keep being alive.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/glasstire.com\/2015\/10\/28\/the-one-question-interview-what-nicolas-bourriaud-thinks-artists-should-be-reading\/\">The One-Question Interview: What Nicolas Bourriaud Thinks Artists Should Be Reading | Glasstire Texas<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&lt;blockquote&gt;\u201cThe question I (artist, Ryder Richards) will ask (curator, Nicolas Bourriaud) is wether or not artists should read critical theory?\u201d&lt;\/blockquote&gt;<\/p>\n<p>In this excerpt I (Rafael Fajardo) am interpreting Bourriaud\u2019s response with the word \u201ccalculated\u201d to mean both \u201csensed\u201d and \u201cgenerated\u201d at the same time.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finally, if the question is \u2018do artists need to read such-and-such\u2019 type of literature, the answer is definitely \u2018no.\u2019 You never know where ideas come from. I believe in chaos for answers. And the most important thing today, when our tastes are calculated by algorithms, is to find things that you are not looking for. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[411,101,134],"class_list":["post-11334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-words","tag-algorithm","tag-art","tag-artcode","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-2WO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11334\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}