Edited by author 09-09-2002 05:11 PM
Dan, this discussion is slowly making me come around to your way of thinking, at least when the artist can be trusted to look for that balance you describe.

I remember well the Psycho Girlfriend tapes and how they revealed, perhaps, more about the man who made them public than the crazed, desperate woman. It's an excellent example of the sort of abuse I was thinking of in the tapes you described. But I see your point now. How much of art is, after all, balance. But in an art world of cut-up cows jars of urine, art doesn't look all that balanced all the time!

This has been an interesting discussion!