What is a truly conscious postmodern (art) practice?
What is the forward movement of art?
An individual (artist) is also an organ of the collective (society).
The truth is only we have the power to transform our situation; There is no one else. That's the good news and the bad.
The artist as an arbiter of social change. Is this true?
The source of creativity in society is the person. Yep.
Monday, August 6, 2007
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Here are some questions and comments kicking around in my head from reading Suzi Gablik's The Reenchantment of Art. I'm wrestling with these ideas and some of them are winning. What's your view?
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I've read The Reenchantment of Art (awhile ago) and also Gablik's Conversations Before the End of Time which is more dialogue/interview based.
I'm not sure which of your questions to begin with, as they are totally tangled up in my own thinking.
I find a really thin line between art and social activism, but also find myself avoiding work that says "you should...." to someone else (as I flee others when they say "you should..." to me).
What's the difference between exposing, revealing, shedding light, presenting a situation so that others can see it (as a problem) and proposing specific actions to remedy (the same problem)?
I personally can see too many sides to any given situation to have any faith in any solution I might propose. Where do I get that authority?
Possibly, that ability to see many sides, and hopefully, the ability to share those multiple viewpoints with others through some kind of art, is what I can do to instigate change.
In both of the above-mentioned books, Gablik writes with an alarmist tone, and I suspect that no matter when she lived and wrote, she would find things to write about in that same voice. Not that there aren't things going on to be alarmed about.
Making art is powerful. We're creating something that hasn't existed before. Making art changes me.
Without fail. And experiencing art by others can also change me.
Change is not always good. But I believe that we all desire what is good. Can that reaching for good (or the redefining of that "good" we strive for) be evolution.
More questions to your questions. Have fun with your paper.
Yeah, it's quite the trip to lay on artists...us as the arbiters of social change.
What about the rest of the members of our world? Seems like a good job for um...politicians, religious leaders, philosophers, the unemployed...?
Isn't it a tad bit arrogant to think that we have that kind of influence?
I say all of us effect change in the sphere of our own lives. It is about who we are being that has influence, not our art per se.
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