My dear, articulate friend David Schoffman has started something of a cottage industry, traveling around Latin America and the United States delivering lectures on Micah Carpentier. I find it somewhat disconcerting that not only has he converted the memory of our beloved comrade into a piddling revenue stream but he has also decided to apply a bit of revisionist art history into the mix.
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| from The Song of Degrees, Micah Carpentier 1992 |
I don't recall ever hearing David criticize Micah's work when Carpentier was alive. Quite the contrary. He was more of an apple polishing groupie, a fawning bootlicker, a groveling flunky, maybe even a bit of a doting yes-man.
Never critical.
The clip below strikes me as being a bit odd. Recorded recently at Gerstein Hall in downtown Seattle, Schoffman begins his talk with a bit of gentle belligerence. I'm told by a few colleagues who were in attendance that what followed was 55 minutes of uninterrupted bile.
Micah Carpentier Lecture, Gerstein Hall, Seattle, 2011 (fragment) by dschoffman
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| Micah Carpentier |
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| Micah Carpentier Retrospective, Musée d'Art Contemporain, Côte-Nord |
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| Micah Carpentier |
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