A "how to" guide to postision yourself as an artistic magician. Magic is usually connceted to light entertainement, wich seems to be far from contemporary fine arts. But by adding more complexity and more artistic quality to your performance, you can put yourself on the field of art.

1. HOW TO BE AN ARTIST
as a magician

2. WHY AN ARTIST ?

3. An artist has a different position as a performer, and it’s
a different position for the audience as well.
People perceive art differently.

4. Malkovich: White on white
60 000 000 $

5. Andreas Gursky: Rajna II
4 300 000 $

6. Sometimes it seems an artist makes more money by
doing less than an expert craftsmen

7. 1.
AVOID ‘ENTERTAINEMENT’

8. Entertainement means comrpomises.
It means that you want to please the audience.
True artists want to share their inner world without
compromises.

9. 2.
break with the conventions

10. Art has to be innovative and original
You should do what nobody did before

11. 3.
make it more complex

12. Art is intellectual and elitist.
The more you have to think about it and the more you
need to know about it makes it more enjoyable.

13. 4.
Stand on others shoulders

14. Art is based on tradition and you have to show that
your work is fit to this tradition.
Show your roots even out of magic!

15. 5.
educate your audience

16. The more they know about magic the more they
understand and appreciate it.

17. 6.
tell that it’s different

18. If it’s not the same ‘good old magic’, you should call it
something else. For example “magie nouvelle”

19. 7.
declare you are

20. And nobody will say you are not