Contemporary art - things made today; recently - is generally the by-product - waste - of industry - capitalism - and academia - ideology in architecture - shaped by an "artist" - untalented professional - incubated in galleries - shelters for professionals and thing shops - and museums - social-engineering centres and shelters for professionals - to maintain said capitalist ideology. It is academic tenure, the selling of books and oils, the maintenance of civility, and the self-absorbed, juvenile, un-worked expression of "subjectivity". It is a fatted city cog, 85% of which is "crap" for one College of Fine Arts, Sydney lecturer, "Art-Lite" to another, and too often time wasting for this once committed writer. So, those who find pleasure in and appreciate experiential thinking, the flow of ideas, and spirit refreshment - Art - should take a walk, watch a mountain, use their carefully honed sensibilities to appreciate the everyday, engage the reasoned exchange of ideas, and wait for the blurred boundaries of industry, academia, and contemporary art to clear, as our museums and galleries crumble.

© Chris Jones, Seoul, October, 2007