CAA 2010

I’m really enjoying the variety of speakers, time periods, and the variety of different mediums being presented.

The Chicago art community can count February 10 to February 13 as a lost weekend, thanks to an a­­ll-consuming cultural invasion called the College Art Association conference.

“I would like to encourage all of you to think about what you can build with others outside of this system ... so that we don’t have to compromise our integrity, beg for crumbs, kiss ass and slide resumes under hotel room doors.”

It was noted that critics themselves are in fact relational artists by definition; criticism itself is a “relational machine.”

In between panels, papers and cups of absurdly bad coffee I participated in the strange dance that is “professional networking.”

I would say that for me the dead time around the interviews was far more stressful than the interviews themselves, which tend to be cordial and quick.

The popularity of the career mentoring sessions, and the number of conference attendees desperate for career counseling, confirmed what we already know: jobs are scarce.