Tomorrow night is the opening of my lab’s art show on self-control, and we interviewed a few of our artists to get their take on the project and self-control in general.
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They picked art for good reason
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14:53 “In my own life I have no self-controlling failure whatsoever”.
a. yes-way
b. noway
intesting project with the artists. What still puzzles me is which brainstructures are involved in making decisions between short term desire and long term value? is It like in buying decisions the accumbuns together with the insula?
Interesting readings of the rules! Some art (performance art for example) can consist entirely of rules the the artist follows. And clearly the guys who didn’t follow the continuous progress rule have quite strict rules within their work that they wouldn’t dream of short-cutting.
I agree with Dan, that the artists who allowed the rules to be an ‘intervention’ in their practice had a more uncontrolled and confronting experience. It seemed that they allowed the project to have an impact across several other areas in their life, not only their art practice.
Personally, the thing I found interesting about the ‘picture a week’ rule was that I either sent the picture on time, saying ‘here’s the picture’, or I sent the picture late, and a whole story about why and what happened, even though I knew no one was interested and it didn’t make any difference and I actually wasn’t in trouble or anything. But knowing all that, I still HAD to write my excuse/reasons.
I’ve done interesting workshops through Landmark Education (they do a lot of work on integrity, Dan!) where they have the distinction that people are always either ‘on time’ or ‘late+reason’ and the problem is when you think late+reason=ontime. And even with this knowledge I don’t think I ever sent a late photo without a reason.
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That’s not a Twilight Zone ep where they torture his wife if he smokes, but from the story Quitters Inc that was made into part of the Cats Eye movie, wasn’t it?
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