{"id":540,"date":"2009-05-08T14:18:39","date_gmt":"2009-05-08T21:18:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp\/2009\/05\/jean-michel_arseneaux\/"},"modified":"2009-05-08T14:18:39","modified_gmt":"2009-05-08T21:18:39","slug":"jean-michel_arseneaux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/2009\/05\/jean-michel_arseneaux.html","title":{"rendered":"Jean-Michel Arseneaux &#8211; the waste water treatment plant of his elevated practice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object width=\"400\" height=\"300\"><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=4506035&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=&amp;fullscreen=1\" \/>Here&#8217;s the story as it was fed to me: Back in circulation after a decade of silence, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vimeo.com\/4506035\">rain artist<\/a> says,<\/object><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>My disgust with art critics has been cleansed in what I can only<br \/>\ndescribe as the waste water treatment plant of an elevated artistic<br \/>\npractice.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><object width=\"400\" height=\"300\"><br \/><embed src=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=4506035&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=&amp;fullscreen=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\"><\/object><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t want to offend the easily offended, but it looks to me like<br \/>\nhe&#8217;s wasting the waste water. Maybe he could incorporate something <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bustersimpson.net\/\">like this<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"BusterSimpsondrain.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/BusterSimpsondrain.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px; text-align: center; display: block;\" width=\"249\" height=\"379\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, go guy go. Name an accident, and it&#8217;s yours. The critic quoted in this interview, New York&#8217;s Jerry Kimmelman, does not exist, which suggests the artist might not exist either. I like him anyhow. Who says an artist has to be real to do real work?<\/p>\n<p>(From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.39forks.com\/\">39 Forks<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s the story as it was fed to me: Back in circulation after a decade of silence, the rain artist says, My disgust with art critics has been cleansed in what I can only describe as the waste water treatment plant of an elevated artistic practice. I don&#8217;t want to offend the easily offended, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-540","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}