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.