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Re: art is a political problem
Stefan Beck
Dec 10, 2003 14:26 PST
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am 10.12.2003 23:17 Uhr schrieb Gregory G. Sholette unter gshol-*at*artic.edu:
Well, my idea is that politics in the realm of art is in a sort of disguise and likely to be overlooked. On reasons maybe to complicated to explain here im against I'm against these politically concerned artists, artworks, artprojects, like dealing with refugees or other "victims" of the "system". We had here in Frankfurt a sort of rebellion against authorities's repressions of nightlife, illegal parties etc for a long time. The message for the public was, we, the party people, we're OK, we just wanta have our fun, but you, the city, the government, you're not OK, you stop us from having fun. With the implication that there is something like a non-political space, of nightlife a.s.f., and a political space of rules, laws defined by the authorities. And to become political means to adress and attack this field of official politics. Not that there was no truth in this scheme, but for me it turned out to be too thin, for there is indeed a different sort of politcs in the nightlife, and I'm speaking here of people who perceive themselves as underground, non-commercial, even left, not the owners of big clubs or venues. For example, who is a DJ, who's allowed to play at these fashionable underground parties? Which records are played, and which not? Who is paid for what and who not? Questions I posed, but never got an answer. Only myths like, we're just friends and family. You could easily transfer this to fine art as well. As a conclusion I'd say that politics are likely to be found where pretended that there are no politics. But the "it#s all politics" is likely too blunt. -- The Thing Frankfurt http://www.thing-frankfurt.de Thing Mailinglist: mailto:thing-frankfu-*at*yahoogroups.com ___________________________________________________________________ Stefan Beck | Hohenstaufenstr. 8 | 60327 Frankfurt | +49-69-7410210 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| Multi.trudi artspace and mediabase works *at* http://www.multitrudi.de |
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