ON THE ROLE OF ART IN POST-S11 SOCIETY
What role should art have in todys's war-torn global community? In the west at least it shoul
be as an aid, not necessarily first aid for the remedy of the post-S11 cloud of doom, but come to think about it, maybe to some degree. Not as sympathy exactly but perhaps as reassuring reminders of where we were before that cloud of paranoia came over. There were some intense things going on, great things in the process of being accomplished. The problem with cycles of conservatism is that we're left being too aware of each other at the end of the period after so much critical analysis of each other's professional behaviour. Recently I've noticed in the mass-media a wave of `community awareness' slots investigating our new social consciousness concerning post-S11 paranoia and the impact it has on the way we think about commuting in public and the threat of public insecurity causing us to regard our community with a notion of fear. While governments induce this in the media preceding election time, the blame cannot rest on them alone. As a collective, we outweigh the beurocracy in number 100/1 or something. As hoipolloi we not only have the power but have strentgth in numbers. And that's just the start of it, regardless of how much we plug ourselves into brain-draining television sets every night, the mass-media doesn't control us in terms of how we think as a collective, it only claims to.The French are prime examples of this concept. They of all people know what it means to be an empowered numerical conglomerate. In South America as well, these communities not only were aware culturally and continuously throughout history of the potential of a force collected but acted on it. The word revolution was a physical reality for them, sealed in blood. I'm not suggesting some sort of re-enactment in the west, but there's definitely things to be learnt from these communities. The potential of a collective mind, a sense of being a collective entity. Sociologically, we're at the point of losing what what we have in this drepartment, theories presently circulating hard and fast sbout the ever increasing deterioration of the fabric of society and all. Art in history has had a role in the strengthening of this sense of the collective as an expression of it, as a product of society's collective cuture and in worse forms, propaganda. I don't see art as having these proprerties nowadays, it's lost somewhwere between the worlds of the internet and advertising with commercial art gluing them together somehow. While art is not dead, it does need resuscitating. It has a job to do, and it's out like a light.
be as an aid, not necessarily first aid for the remedy of the post-S11 cloud of doom, but come to think about it, maybe to some degree. Not as sympathy exactly but perhaps as reassuring reminders of where we were before that cloud of paranoia came over. There were some intense things going on, great things in the process of being accomplished. The problem with cycles of conservatism is that we're left being too aware of each other at the end of the period after so much critical analysis of each other's professional behaviour. Recently I've noticed in the mass-media a wave of `community awareness' slots investigating our new social consciousness concerning post-S11 paranoia and the impact it has on the way we think about commuting in public and the threat of public insecurity causing us to regard our community with a notion of fear. While governments induce this in the media preceding election time, the blame cannot rest on them alone. As a collective, we outweigh the beurocracy in number 100/1 or something. As hoipolloi we not only have the power but have strentgth in numbers. And that's just the start of it, regardless of how much we plug ourselves into brain-draining television sets every night, the mass-media doesn't control us in terms of how we think as a collective, it only claims to.The French are prime examples of this concept. They of all people know what it means to be an empowered numerical conglomerate. In South America as well, these communities not only were aware culturally and continuously throughout history of the potential of a force collected but acted on it. The word revolution was a physical reality for them, sealed in blood. I'm not suggesting some sort of re-enactment in the west, but there's definitely things to be learnt from these communities. The potential of a collective mind, a sense of being a collective entity. Sociologically, we're at the point of losing what what we have in this drepartment, theories presently circulating hard and fast sbout the ever increasing deterioration of the fabric of society and all. Art in history has had a role in the strengthening of this sense of the collective as an expression of it, as a product of society's collective cuture and in worse forms, propaganda. I don't see art as having these proprerties nowadays, it's lost somewhwere between the worlds of the internet and advertising with commercial art gluing them together somehow. While art is not dead, it does need resuscitating. It has a job to do, and it's out like a light.
in regards to the post 911 thing, i find the current state of artistic expression really disappointing for two reasons...firstly, because historically, some of the best art has been created in times of suffering -artwork that not only sought to explain the event, but inspire those left behind...and secondly, because art (with some small exceptions - eg, stencil art) is no longer really being used as a gesture of resistance or a symbol of defiance. so i agree. some resucitation definetly needs to be done.
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Provided they have enough food, immunisation, fresh water and shelter.
You are doing some very deep thinking there, far be it for me to take an exception to that.
You've got a difficult task. Congratulations on such a mighty endeavour.
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welcome back! nice to hear from you, thank-you for your visit, my blog is graced by your presence again. Concerning my task, I can only try and will not rest until i've made my effort. You're always welcome here as an artist and a kind-spirited one at that.
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I put some Iraqi art on one of my posts, best I could find, at this stage.
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