Letter 11. On Casual Racism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KR1QrwTolxo
T: Hi John,
Happy New year! Thank you for your tutorial report.
You know White Cube was literally that close to offer me a solo show. And then they said - ‘you lack an interesting name or a background. You are too normal, too familiar.’
J: Well basically they were saying you are too white for them?
T: Yeah yeah haha this is exactly what it was. And I was like - ‘guys I know I’m just a white male painter from Essex, but I can do shit, I can put one of these big sombrero on and run around the White Cube like a proper Mexican (??!) but what the hell!’
And then later that week, there was more!
T: And then she was like - Maybe your paintings are understood in Britain - I don't know! I don't understand your paintings- I’m South American!
T: And I was like, -ok-.
And John, have you heard about this term ‘ to paint with an accent?’ I think this is what is happening in here….
(stop music)
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J: I'm tired of stories about clever white men and how special they are.
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Before country
shitetown!
Saying some thoughts
Hellooo -
Listening!
Space fishing
Naked eye
removing
That irritates the greater compost
Within random manipulated podcasts told
-facing boredom
encapsulated within correspondence
Incomplete gestures
Many
To complete the incomplete gestalt
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