Jan Vorisek’s Devotion Strategy

The Saplings Program kept her ahead of the curve. Fresh blood and fresh sweat and fresh tears. That’s what the market hungered for, and that’s what she’d give them. The contract stipulated that in return for being exhibited as part of Gallery Lally’s Saplings Program, the curator would be paid with one piece of art, of her choosing, from the show.

For some critics, including Tate Modern curator Jessica Morgan and critic Claire Bishop, Bourriaud’s approach and his claims risk, themselves, being utopian, naïve and unrealistic.

Advisor that you want to be an artist or actor and chances are she gives you a tight smile and tries to steer you into a safe, known career: teacher or arts therapist. Something conservative. Careful. With a reliable pension. Overtly choosing to be a professional artist from the outset is quite rare. Few of us actively choose The Creative Way as ou