Somehow people tend to think Art has to do with beauty and so it is innocent. Nice landscapes, beautiful nudes, some juicy fruits, what else? Artists tend to think it is all about searching the edge, and use violence and sex to sell their empty messages. But we are trapped. Art is always a political standpoint, no matter what piece. Because when art is silent, a culture is dead. When artists just go for the money, thats a reflection of the political system. When artists can't raise their voices, their art is an outcry for freedom.
I don't take the shit about beauty. Art is our medium. Our voice. Our style. But it's not innocent. We can't hide behind our funny pictures or stupid youtube expressions. It's always a choice of either being to stupid to miss the political dimension or to take stand and risk your popularity. Art is more about searching the political border, to speak out the unspeakable, to cry fro the crying, to spotlight the outcast, to rage the silenced voices.
We think graffiti is something new, but in the Roman Empire people were already sentenced for their political writings. Do we read about this in our Art Theory books? Mostly not. And if we do, art is instrumentalized again as a "voice of that time" Dadaism was just a reaction on the craziness of Worldwar I. But it is actually an outcry of an ancient cultural movement, something continuous bursting through the surface, a strong and sometimes violent art movement existing since the beginning of mankind. It has less to do with painting landscapes and more with tearing that landscape apart.
In the end the question is: are you the one still making nice stuff that everyone likes, or are you disturbing the political order with your actions?
In this time that does not mean putting a twenty meters large vagina in a museum. In this time that means breaking the common sense in culture.
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