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Who is faking it: artists or activists, or both? | 11 comments

[new] Holmes' article (Avg. Score: none / Raters: 0) (#2)
by TreborScholz on Mon May 5th, 2003 at 11:44:49 AM EURODISCORDIA TIME
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Brian Holmes' comments were very specific giving Thomas Hirschorn as dubious example for artists working about social movements in the institutional art context. He asks for genuine involvement with these movements when working about them, a direct support such as that of Ne Pas Plier.

In the few 2-10 second long media reports that actually did pay attention to the more than ten million anti-war protesters, like you, I did not see much art. In the streets of NYC I saw some puppets, signs and performative protesters but was it as impressive as Seattle?

I was more interested in Holmes' favoring of a very particular political art practice while I agree with his criticque of the lack of genuine engagement. And I wondered if art institutions are the best place to achieve
what Brian (and I) want to bring about in terms of social change. And artists are not priviledged in having a particular role in this process. The creation of sustainable communities around specific and urgent issues-- online and off, initiated by artists or not, inside the museum or outside of the box-- seems more effective when we set out to change the way people think and act. And if then we go into the field of art- there is a wide spectrum of practices that contributes to a critical cultural climate.

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