crisis

As this is posted in such a public space it might be dangerous to me. :P

I'm just having some crisis of why doing so again.

In this world there are so many things that are more "saying" than "doing". Maybe I don't know enough about other countries, this is what I have observed in Taiwan.

So you create an art work, and its nice, but you still have to write a bunch of crap to prove its worth. Or vice versa, you made a crap, and you write a bunch of crap to make it look awesome. It doesn't matter. In the end what matters is how you write.

Then why not just write, and do nothing?

What's the difference between art work and critics?

I can write well. But I just don't want to do so right now. No. I've been trained well on writing chinese, but I just don't want to use the power of pen (and some fancy words without real meanings) to *make a work look valuable*.

Sometimes this "writing activities" makes me wonder if it is cheating at all. Seems not, since all the "activities" (in art) are just about "writing competitions" along with personal tastes anyway. It IS about the writing, not about the "work" after all. So why not just accept it?

Yes I actually took time to read through many thesis written by art / interactive art / design students. 80% of them I really can't see anything new except for citing references. Usually McLuhan, Barthes, Derrida, Sontag, Baudrillard, Ascott, Benjamin... And there are rarely anything new. Then why write it?

Oh because it's just a game about how you speak. *wink*

Really the question is just whether you want to play the game with them or not. (But I really don't want to.)

So I have a crisis, again.