terrifying art
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presentation for a conference during Maastricht UNiversity studies on "Terrifying Art"TRANSCRIPT
Goal
A focus on ART as
an alternative approachWHAT?
=> assist putting the interaction between
terrorismcurrent climate of fear
=> in a proper perspective.
WHY?
What does a focus on art add to the perspective?
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It will assist in showing that a climate of fear is:
Beyond one kind of “terrorism”
Related to larger Complexity / ConvolutedBeyond one religionBeyond one era
Is related to a perception in which favorable “conditions” are perceived to be at risk. The perceived risk is a reduction of integrities of the same “conditions”.
Conditions: socio-economic, cultural, political, aesthetics, values, etc.
Potential motives:
\ \ \--> Political integrity.
\ -->Socio-economic \ integrity.
1. Terrorism as a pretext for a crackdown on art(ists)
Increase homeland security.Reduce protest against official policy.Unwillingness / Incompetence
Increase streamlining.
Increase control information flow.
Obsessive-compulsive behavior. (Fear & frustration)
(e.g. market, social developments, perceptions, etc.)
(e.g. distinguish a threat from a non-threat)
\ -->psychological integrity.
• Bikes Against Bush Joshua Kinberg (2004)
1.
http://www.bikesagainstbush.com/blog/
Terrorism as a pretext for a crackdown on art(ists)
• Artist accused of being a bioterrorist. (2004)
• Steve Kurtz Associate Professor Department of Art State University of New York’s University at Buffalo.
• member Critical Art Ensemble.
• Makes art which addresses the politics of biotechnology
2.
Terrorism as a pretext for a crackdown on art(ists)
Art as a Pretext for Terror(ism).
Potential motives:\ -->e.g. Religious
integrity
Infringement on social property:e.g. Morals, Memes, Values, Ethnicity, Religion, Stereotypes, Role models, Heroes, Stories, Identity, Gender, Etc.
Unwillingness / incompetence (e.g. to distinguish assault from dialogue or coping mechanisms).
Larger sense of insecure environment.Larger context of bullying.
Obsessive-compulsive behavior. (Fear & frustration).
\ -->e.g. Social \ integrity
\ -->e.g. Psychological integrity
• Ayatollah Khomeini’s death fatwa (February 14, 1989)
• (Again Tue. 14 Feb 2006 & June 2007)
1.
Art as a Pretext for Terror(ism).
Alexander Kosolapov’s My Blood (2001)
2.
Disfigured in Russia
Russian lawsuits blasphemous subject matter
Russian Orthodox Churchreplaced Communist as moral authority & censor in ideological matters.
Art as a Pretext for Terror(ism).
3.
Nairobi, Kenya - against Danish cartoons in Morgenavisen Jyllands-Posten-Photo by Sayyid Azim, AP (2006/02/10)
(example can be seen as CONVOLUTED)
Terrorism as a pretext for a crackdown on art(ists)
Artist accused of being terrorist.
Freedom to accuse perceived as terrifying.
&
Art as a Pretext for Terror(ism).
Mutual Hostility
Terrorism as SubjectTerror(ism), war (on terror), peace
as themes for songs and other forms of expression
fear, frustration, powerlessness and angerClimate or motives:
Terrorism as Subject
1.Gonzalo Frasca & Newsgaming:
“September 12th; A Toy World” -simulation.
Explores aspects of “the war on terror”.
• http://www.peace-not-war.org/index.html
• The Rub: George Bush Is An Islamic Fundamentalist (song)
2.b.
Terrorism as Subject
“Das grösste Kunstwerk, das es je gegeben
hat"
9.11 =
as metaphor for the Sublime
1.
Terror(ism) as metaphorterrorism as art
A Quote from Stockhausen. Also quoted in Virilio, P., Turner C (trans.). (2002). Ground Zero. Londres: Verso. p. 45
• Art Terrorism• Banksy: Early
Man Goes to Market.
• Smuggled into the British Museum in Gallery 49
2.
Terror(ism) as metaphor art terrorism
• Luigi Russolo, Futurist.3.
Intonarumori.
Terror(ism) as metaphorterrorizing art - art as “war against terror”
Metaphor for the noise of the modern age.
Manifesto: L'arte dei rumori (1913)
“The Futurists were quasi-terrorists who embraced war, speed, technology as the artistic reality of the 20th century.”
“Noise terrorist”“Liberation from
aesthetic terror”
• Heiner Müller,
Terror(ism) as metaphorterrorizing art - art as “war against terror”
appropriationist Playwright.
Concerned with the “terrorism of fashion and the bourgeois cult of the absolutely new” (Kalb,1998, p.1).
4.
Terror(ism) as metaphorterrorizing art - artist terrorized
• George Antheil5.
Ballet Mécanique (1927)•effect 20th century mechanization
"Bad Boy of Music”
The composer who carried a gun to concerts
What did this focus on art add to the perspective?
•
•
It will assist in showing that a climate of fear is:
Beyond one kind of “terrorism”
Related to larger Complexity / ConvolutedBeyond one religionBeyond one era
Is related to a perception in which favorable “conditions” are perceived to be at risk. The perceived risk is a reduction of integrities of the same “conditions”.
Conditions: socio-economic, cultural, political, aesthetics, values, etc.