{"id":126,"date":"2008-03-20T06:18:53","date_gmt":"2008-03-20T13:18:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lucazoid.com\/bilateral\/the-dilletante-in-the-conversation\/"},"modified":"2008-03-20T06:18:53","modified_gmt":"2008-03-20T13:18:53","slug":"the-dilletante-in-the-conversation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lucazoid.com\/bilateral\/the-dilletante-in-the-conversation\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dilletante in The Conversation"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"sal<\/p>\n

Sal Randalph<\/a> has done A Good Thing by wrangling Mr Randall Szott to do an interview<\/a>. Randall until recently ran a great blog called Leisure Arts<\/a>. All three of us (Sal, Randall and myself) share artistic and theoretical touchstones.<\/p>\n

I met Sal for the first time when I was in New York back in November. She took me to a nice little organic place near her studio on the lower east side and I had a bowl of soup and a cup of tea. It was rather expensive and Sal only had a coffee. We spoke passionately (I fear I sometimes ranted) about the things we were excited about at the time: things you might expect like the legacy of conceptual art and Allan Kaprow and re-enactment; but also unexpected stuff, eg: Sal has become convinced of the importance of Donald Judd. <\/p>\n

Amongst a million other activities, Sal periodically works on a project called “Free Money<\/a>“, in which she, quite literally, gives money away to people. They sign up for an appointment and then they meet at a cafe and have a chat, but the first thing that happens is Sal gives them the cash. Then the conversation can go wherever it needs to or wants to. There is no need for the person to hang around, Sal is not “buying their time” or anything. <\/p>\n

I should point out that our meeting in New York was not<\/em> an instance of Free Money<\/em>.<\/p>\n

But it was a great meeting, we were excited penpals who finally connected in the flesh.<\/p>\n

After we left I realised we had not “split the bill”. In fact, Sal had paid for most of it, even though her small coffee probably constituted a quarter of the total. I felt strange about this. I worried that Sal might think I was trying to get out of paying my fair share, having just heard of her tendency to give away cash. Like somehow we had played “Free Money” without any advance agreement on the idea. <\/p>\n

Neither of us has not mentioned anything about it since, even though we have exchanged several friendly emails in the interim.<\/p>\n

See the funny things money does to a man?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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