A Mission Statement, perhaps...

The following blog would hopefully primarily serve for me as a reminder of where have I been and what have I seen and cared for or became irritated about having in mind primarily art exhibitions, but also performances, concerts, fashion shows, supermarket displays, journalism,  advertisements, art theory, etc. Hopefully it would at one point also fulfill its promise as kind of "shadow boxing" for public art criticism. And a tool for working out a style of writing for a new age of electronic communication. Short, impressionist, hopefully at a time laden with overcharged value judgments, juicy anecdotes from the practical sides of cultural production, graphomaniac reminiscences and comparisons a out of key for mainstream print media. The main working mode here -- as far as I can imagine something of which I so far have no practical experience -- is constant flow, or to use a Deleuzian term, flux. Fragmented and jumpy but written in present continuous tense. I would not aspire it to be a web journal for art criticism, like for example, in Estonian context, Artishok blog aspires to be. I would rather consider that as kind of "studio time", a way to practice my "gammuts" and get into shape again, by regular writing experience/experiment. As if when you are wring a column you have to come back to it regularly, you have to provide, at least once a week, but quite to the contrary to a column in a newspaper, this electronic mood of publishing on the net a flood of impressions, even if at a time full articles might appear here, is relieved of a need to "come to a point" with every inscription, a need to wrought a perfectly publishable unitary essay, an attempt to cover a theme thoroughly. But still, the authors voice -- this time in English -- and the authors position and personal experience is something which counts here as a constant missing from most of the authors forced to mold their ideas to square forms and limited amount of publishing space related to most newspaper criticism. At first it is an experiment for me -- to get back to writing, to comment regularlyon what is currently happening on Estonian scene. And at the same time provide to Estonian scene with impressions on things international I have seen and am willing to recommend.