I Like America and America Likes Me, Joseph Beuys, 1974
THEY killed it.
Killed another word.
(Three words actually.)
Death by Art.
Slowly.
Slowly, THEY killed some words:
A slow process.
Drowning by “Culture”.
THEY killed socially engaged art.
Socially engaged art was
An EASY target.
Art is always an easy target.
The process?
Slowly subsume …
Label, demean, reject, define, include, standardise, institutionalise, integrate, “reach out”, educate, celebrate, award BIG prizes, exclude.
(End Game: DEPOLITICISATION.)
THEY always EXCLUDE
Those who believed
That they could make a change,
That they were autonomous,
That they might oppose
The INSTITUTIONS OF ART.
Some will weep,
While some will cheer:
New CAREER OPPORTUNITIES!
Follow THEIR path.
Assist in THEIR conditioning,
THEIR social “cleansing”.
PARASITES!
No matter.
GAME OVER!
Good.
Move FORWARD.
Anti-institution;
Anti-Art.
THERE IS NO MIDDLE GROUND!
Self-organise.
Our practice remains the same:
Outside The Castle;
In the margins,
Where living together creatively
Ferments.
ZERO TIMES ZERO.
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Some Keith Haring. forthcoming.