BUSY [fr. occupé]

Busy is the state of being totally occupied.
The state of not having space for anything else other than what is planed in the long term.
The state of being covered and not able to manoeuvre.
A state of immobility.
Busy is a state when your life does not belong to you, but to everything else except yourself.
We did not even say everybody.
Being busy is the state of being occupied to the degree of not having space for something else than what is part of projects.
The artist of today is busy because he has projects making him busy.
Neither the proximity, daily life or the actual can enter in his filed of vision.
The busy artist is perceiving the reality with a teleobjective.
No wide angle on his lens.
No macro.
The artist is busy projecting his ghost in the future.
The busy artist can neither absorb, integrate, nor redistribute immediate impulsive perceptions.
The state of being busy is called business.
The opposite of the busy artist could be the flaneur.
The artist of today has changed from being a flaneur to a busy entrepreneur.
The artist of today has radically changed his way of being.
The artist is not anymore a bohème floating around freely, blown around and inspired.
But a busy person peering at opportunities and running for network and fake parties.

To be busy is not like having caught a virus or a temporarily pathos.
To be busy is a voluntary and fundamental decision of how to live.
One can only be fundamentally busy.
Busy-by-principle.
To be busy is a strategy to close (nearly) all other possibilities (than being busy).
Thus the state of business is as close to a spiritual choice we come today.
This is choice is rarely done with regard at the consequences.

Artists make themselves busy by their own will.
And they don’t even have to.
Maybe some told them business was a cool lifestyle.
Maybe they thought so by themselves.

The result is the same: business is an attitude which is more than a form.
Business also corrupt the content.

Business occupies every available space of the artistic receptivity.

A busy artist cannot even have 10 percent free.
A busy artist is occupied.
Should someone die before his feet, he wouldn’t notice.
He is looking further.
At the projected landscape.

When you are responsible of children, the school can call you at any moment, telling you that your daughter is sick.
Hopefully you will abandon everything in your hands and come immediately.
If you are too busy, she will die alone in the hospital.

Business is the enemy of emergency production.
What would we say if the fire-brigade, policeman or health care were busy?
--Sorry, we can’t take any action in your matter: we are busy with our careers.
Business makes any urgent work impossible.
In who’s interest is it to keep artists busy?
Comme le malade imaginaire l’artiste est busy, malgré lui, but on its own will.