꼴같지 않은 일들이....우리나라에서만 일어나지 않는다는 것이 위로라면 위로고, 개그라면 유머일 수도 있겠다. 꼭 저딴식으로 놀아야하는가.
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글 : 전지현 (이 전지현씨가 그 전지현은....아닐 꺼라 상상은 되지만...웬지 므흣하긴하다...)
*이번엔 스포츠 신문의 어투로 영국의 작가 트레이시 에민(Tracey Emin)과 평론가 필립 헨셔(Philip Hensher)의 싸움을 보도합니다.
사건은 필립 헨셔가 트레이시 에민에 대해 인신공격적 평을 하면서부터 시작된다. 그는 <인디펜던트(the Independent)>지의 평론에서 그녀가 훌륭한 개념미술작가가 되기에는 너무 멍청하다며, “과연 훌륭한 개념미술가이면서 동시에 그지없는 바보일 수 있는가?”, 그리고 “그녀는 회의하는 지성이라고는 눈꼽만큼도 찾아볼 수 없는 아둔한 멍청이”라고 쓴다. 또,”그녀는 자신이 어쩌다 발견한 몇몇 흥미로운 개념을 탐구하기에는 너무 우둔하다. 트레이시 에민에게는 가망이 없다. 그녀는 꽝이다.”라고 결론짓는다.
그렇다면 그들은 어떤 사람들인가?
트레이시 에민은 영국 미술계의 간판스타이며 필립 헨셔는 영국 평론계의 가장 촉망받는 젊은 작가이다.
헨셔의 악평이 있은 후, 에민은 <옵서버(Observer)>지와 인터뷰를 하는데, “인디펜던트지에 누군가가 나를 ‘지진아’라고 불렀고, 난 정말 머리끝까지 화가났다. 나는 거기에 보복했다. 어떻게라고는 말하지 않겠지만, 난 완전히 응수했다.” 라고 말했다. 여기서 문제가 된 것은 ‘응수했다’라는 암시이다.
이 일이 있은 후 헨셔의 집에는 동성애자를 비방하는 음란한 내용의 정크메일과 물건들이 배달되고, 헨셔는 <스펙테이터지(Spectator magazine)>의 한 기사에서 이것이 에민의 보복일 가능성이 있다며, 에민의 ‘응수했다’는 표현을 들먹인다. 이에 에민은 즉각 명예훼손으로 그를 고발하겠다고 나섰다. 그녀는 100마일 이내 접근금지 명령도 신청하려 한다. 이 소식을 들은 헨셔는 다시 한 번 그녀의 부인이 쇼같다며 의심을 거두지 않았고, 에민은 자신이 ‘응수했다’는 것은 좀 더 미묘한 방식이었다고 말한다. 에민은 그것이 그저 “반 놀림조로 한 말이었다. 만일 당신이 어떤 사람으로부터 부당한 일을 당했을 때 당신은 복수하려고 생각하지는 않는다. 그저 그에게도 똑같이 이런 재수없는 일이 일어나기를 바랄 뿐이다.”라고 해명한다.
자, 이것이 지금까지 사건의 전말이다.
출처: www.guardian.co.uk
*여기서 문득 드는 생각은, 평론가가 작가를 범주화 시키려 한다는 것이다. 서두에 헨셔는 에민이 훌륭한 개념미술작가이기에는 너무 멍청하다고했는데, 과연 작가가 자신이 개념미술작가라는 의식을 가지고 작업을 했는지, 그냥 아무렇게나 지 꼴리는대로 작업을 한 것인데 그게 평론가의 범주에 포착된 것은 아닌지 궁금하다. 만일 후자의 경우라면 그런 평론에 그렇게 발끈할 필요는 없지 않은가라는 생각이 든다. 게다가 개념미술작가는 꼭 똑똑해야 하는지도 의문이다. 여기서는 작가가 평론가의 술수에 걸려들어 허우적대고 있다는 느낌을 받는다.
The artist, the critic and a war of words
Tracey Emin is threatening critic Philip Hensher with the courts after their slanging match took another twist. Amelia Hill reports on a very public row
Sunday August 17, 2003
The Observer
She is the most recognisable face of the Brit Art generation. He is one of Britain's most lionised young writers and a prolific chronicler of the art world. But now Tracey Emin and Philip Hensher are locked in an astonishing feud that could end in the courts.
In a fecious row that has seen the two fling increasingly wild accusations and bitter denials, a climax was reached last night when Emin announced her intention to sue Hensher for defamation of character and threatened to take out an injunction preventing him approaching her.
'I can't understand what's going on in Hensher's mind because this is so vile,' Emin told The Observer last night. 'His obsession with me is pervy and creepy. I'm very unhappy and freaked out by all of this and I just want it to stop. He's coming from somewhere I don't understand; from weirdoland.'
Hensher, one of Granta's 2003 list of Best British Writers under 40 and a regular newspaper columnist and art critic, hit back by calling Emin irrational and claimed any obsession is on her side. 'I'm certainly not obsessed by her but this irrational outburst shows she can't stop thinking about me,' he said. 'I wish her good luck at the solicitors and if she gets an injunction it won't make the slightest different to my life: I have no intention of going near her or writing a word about her ever again.'
The feud began in the Independent when Hensher wrote a damning critique of Emin, claiming she was too stupid to be a good conceptual artist. 'Is it possible to be a good conceptual artist and also very stupid?' he asked. He doubted it. Emin, he wrote, was a half-witted dullard with no inquiring intelligence. She was, he added, too thick to explore the few interesting concepts she had hit on by chance, and concluded: 'There's no hope for Tracey Emin. She's just no good.'
So far, so routine in the sharp-speaking world of art criticism. Then in an interview in The Observer Magazine last month the row flared again. 'I get completely slagged off by people whose mortgage I'm paying,' Emin complained. 'They write 500 words about me, they pay their mortgage that week. Someone on the Independent called me a "retard", which really wound me up. I responded. I'm not saying how, but I totally responded.'
The claim of a mysterious response caused Hensher to look more closely at a recent flurry of unsolicited junk mail and items he had received, addressed to a Miss Phyllis Henshaw at his address. Last week, in an article for the Spectator magazine, he raised the possibility that it was Emin who anonymously ordered the items, ranging from incontinence pads to china figurines of Peter Rabbit. 'Someone, clearly, was deliberately persecuting me with rabbits in knickerbockers,' he said, after receiving a call responding to a generous offer Phyllis had apparently made to house a retired racehorse.
'It seemed to me that "Henshaw" was probably a slapdash mistake,' he said. 'Calling me "Phyllis", however, was certainly a puerile and bigoted insult of the sort that any homosexual writer occasionally gets.'
It was at this point that Emin's interview in The Observer appeared - and Hensher admitted an 'astonishing possibility' occurred to him. 'Could my persecutor really be Tracey?' he asked. 'It seemed almost unimaginable. Could an artist of professional standing and experience stoop to that? But she certainly said... that she had "responded" to my original article,' he reasoned. 'No [other] kind of response had ever come to my notice... Perhaps it was a growing sense of paranoia but [her words] did suggest some kind of underhand revenge... Wasn't [this] exactly the sort of thing she might plausibly do?'
Last night Emin struck back. 'Not one single word of his article is true; it's a vicious piece of journalism,' she said. 'It's complete fiction: he should just write novels or get himself certified or something because obviously he has a big problem. I laughed when I first read it but then I realised it was the sort of thing someone who doesn't know me might believe and I was mortified. How can someone's mind go into that mode?
'It's pervy because he's been thinking about me, and imagining that I'm thinking about him. He's imagining me stalking him, and stalking me in turn through the media. My solicitors are reading over the article today and I'm going to come back to London this week to talk to them. I don't know what sort of dialogue I can have with someone this mad, but I reckon a claim for defamation of character isn't a bad start. I might get an injunction out against him as well. I don't want him within 100 miles of me; he's obviously obsessed and weird.
'I have never sued anyone before. I have better things to do and really don't want to spend the next year suing some little tosser but this is something I feel particularly upset about.'
Some associates close to Emin suggest her denials might be part of a charade. 'She might consider this as some sort of artistic game,' said one. 'It might not be for a couple of weeks yet that we learn the truth.'
Emin rejects such suggestions. 'I have bad relationships with some critics but it's their job to have an argument and I enjoy that,' she said. 'What you don't expect if someone's an art critic is that if they don't enjoy what they see they respond with this sort of malicious, vitriolic and personal attack.'
The accusation of homophobia particularly upset Emin. 'I didn't even know he was gay and I'm not interested now that I do. I'm not even going to begin defending myself against the homophobic charge because it's so absolutely unfounded.'
Hensher is unconvinced by Emin's denials. 'I wrote the Spectator article because I wanted a response: I wanted to know what she meant when she boasted about having "responded", ' he said. 'I guess I should have expected this sort of irrational outburst but I just don't believe her denials: what else could she have been hinting at, except what I accused her of?'
Emin, however, said that the revenge she mentioned was more subtle. 'The revenge I got was sweet justice because three weeks later his own newspaper, the Independent, did a massive and very flattering, witty interview with me on their front page. I was being tongue-in-cheek when I said I'd got my revenge because you don't look for revenge when some one does you an injustice. You just wait and it comes back to them, which is what happened in this case.
'I get so much shit written about me but I wouldn't do this, I really wouldn't. I swear on my life and on my mother's life, and I'm prepared to swear an affidavit on it in court if need be. After all, I'm not known for being secretive. It's hardly my strong point. If I had done this, I would say I had, and say why I thought it served him right.'
Hensher on Emin
'She's welcome to an injunction against me. I have no intention of going near her or writing a word about her ever again'
Emin on Hensher
'He's pervy and creepy. He's from from weirdoland. I don't want to spend the next year suing some little tosser but I feel very upset about this'
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