Rosalie Schweiker:More Mince, Less Sausage:Making art that doesn't look like art

Below find pulled out sections of the passage, that I feel are important.

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-This is immensely enjoyable, but in weaker moments, eg when I have to apply for a job, I feel exhausted and confused, like I'm getting nowhere and have no strategy.

-"nobody, not even yourself, has time to connect the dots"

-Not to box myself in or to make myself discoverable, but to be able to find other people who would be interested in what I'm interested in, to find and to give support.

-Which is why I have started to talk about mince and sausages instead of the usual terminology of "socially-engaged" or "participatory" or "people-focused" or"useful art", which mostly confuse art with an upper-class dating agency or is based on obscure dead old men theories.

-I realised that what I and so many of my art colleagues were doing was 'mince'.

- There are two kinds of artists: mince artists and sausage artists. Sausage artists make easily recognisable, tasty art sausages, like solo shows and performances from 6:15 to 7:30pm on a Friday evening.

- Sausage artists are much loved because they make clearly recognisable art sausages, they are easy to spot and easy to eat. curators and collectors like sausage artists because its obvious what to do with a sausage.some artists make sausages, although they don't really like them, but they think that its 'What you do'.Sausage art is a powerful force on the imagination and its clearly here to stay.

-Mince art is very present, you can smell it from miles away, but its hard to describe because there are so many meaty bits that together form mince.

- Often mince artists work in the engine room of the art world.They are the producers, the educators, the designers, the facilitators, the cleaners, the communicators.Because what they do is raw, they get asked to shape their mince into 'The education project', 'the panel disscussion', 'the tote bag'.Because their work is not in sausage shape they don't get asked to do 'the work'.

-I also need to point out that some artists make sausages but pretend they art making mince.

(Schweiker, 2017)

Reference: Schweiker, R. (2019). More mince, less sausage: making art that doesn't look like art - a-n The Artists Information Company. [online] a-n The Artists Information Company. Available at: https://www.a-n.co.uk/news/mince-less-sausage-making-art-doesnt-look-like-art/ [Accessed 12 Oct. 2019].