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● John. A 21st century update of Berger's Ways of Seeing!
●In today's chaotic world that appeals to imagination, it is an important work to unravel the fog of power in contemporary art in the 21st century!
●Does art still have power? Can culture also be used as a weapon?
Have you ever seen eye-catching graffiti creations with words and patterns on the streets of the city? Graffiti expresses the voice of the city with blatant transgression. However, when graffiti art appears in commercial advertisements, the government even designates a legal creative area to curb graffiti, people gradually ignore the subversive character in the concept of the essence of graffiti, how should we treat the graffiti art we love?
In contemporary times, an art exhibition, an activism movement, and even the birth of a publication often imply many complex relationships between politics, money, and power that are difficult to explain. How do we dismantle art and activism? There is a multi-party wrestling hidden between the sports? This is an important angle for us to understand contemporary art.
In 2009, the American artist Jeremy. Jeremy Deller brought part of the Iraq war to the United States with his art project "It is What it is: Conversation about Iraq". He travels from New York to Los Angeles with veterans, Iraqi refugee artists, and an abandoned car that was blown up during the Baghdad attack, engaging in conversations along the way, allowing the public to have an experiential, not just didactic, encounter. People would talk about their experiences with the war after visiting: Veterans would tell of bomb bills on the roadside, fighting in Kirkut, and depression after returning home; military partners, parents would talk about Relatives; Iraqis, Arabs and black Muslims talk about their fears - from growing bigotry about Islam during the war on terror. However, is this "art"? Or "activism"? What is the political position in this?
You have to watch first, then you can recognize it, and then you can make an evaluation. Author Nato. As a defender of contemporary art expression and one of the most acclaimed young curators and art critics in the United States, Thompson is committed to explaining how artists who are engaged in art and activism can see through the meaning and power of contemporary art Relationships, and the logic of capitalism permeating art, how can artists find their own voices and make changes? He opens up a lively discussion from some of the most innovative and interesting works of active artists and activists today, to the experimental fields that empower the community to see and re-imagine.
Since around the 2010s, many social movements have taken place around the world, from the "Arab Spring", "European Summer", "Occupy Wall Street", to the "318 Sunflower Movement" in Taiwan, and the "Peace Movement" in Hong Kong. Occupy Central", traces of contemporary art's involvement in society and politics can be seen from these movements. "Ways of Viewing Power: A Guide to Art Actions in the 21st Century to Change Society" is trying to lead us to unravel the confusion of contemporary art and power, and to speculate on the way art intervenes in politics and the power relationship in the art world.
Only when we can master the way of "viewing power", can we face up to the complexity of power and find out the possibility of transcendence.
●In today's chaotic world that appeals to imagination, it is an important work to unravel the fog of power in contemporary art in the 21st century!
●Does art still have power? Can culture also be used as a weapon?
Have you ever seen eye-catching graffiti creations with words and patterns on the streets of the city? Graffiti expresses the voice of the city with blatant transgression. However, when graffiti art appears in commercial advertisements, the government even designates a legal creative area to curb graffiti, people gradually ignore the subversive character in the concept of the essence of graffiti, how should we treat the graffiti art we love?
In contemporary times, an art exhibition, an activism movement, and even the birth of a publication often imply many complex relationships between politics, money, and power that are difficult to explain. How do we dismantle art and activism? There is a multi-party wrestling hidden between the sports? This is an important angle for us to understand contemporary art.
In 2009, the American artist Jeremy. Jeremy Deller brought part of the Iraq war to the United States with his art project "It is What it is: Conversation about Iraq". He travels from New York to Los Angeles with veterans, Iraqi refugee artists, and an abandoned car that was blown up during the Baghdad attack, engaging in conversations along the way, allowing the public to have an experiential, not just didactic, encounter. People would talk about their experiences with the war after visiting: Veterans would tell of bomb bills on the roadside, fighting in Kirkut, and depression after returning home; military partners, parents would talk about Relatives; Iraqis, Arabs and black Muslims talk about their fears - from growing bigotry about Islam during the war on terror. However, is this "art"? Or "activism"? What is the political position in this?
You have to watch first, then you can recognize it, and then you can make an evaluation. Author Nato. As a defender of contemporary art expression and one of the most acclaimed young curators and art critics in the United States, Thompson is committed to explaining how artists who are engaged in art and activism can see through the meaning and power of contemporary art Relationships, and the logic of capitalism permeating art, how can artists find their own voices and make changes? He opens up a lively discussion from some of the most innovative and interesting works of active artists and activists today, to the experimental fields that empower the community to see and re-imagine.
Since around the 2010s, many social movements have taken place around the world, from the "Arab Spring", "European Summer", "Occupy Wall Street", to the "318 Sunflower Movement" in Taiwan, and the "Peace Movement" in Hong Kong. Occupy Central", traces of contemporary art's involvement in society and politics can be seen from these movements. "Ways of Viewing Power: A Guide to Art Actions in the 21st Century to Change Society" is trying to lead us to unravel the confusion of contemporary art and power, and to speculate on the way art intervenes in politics and the power relationship in the art world.
Only when we can master the way of "viewing power", can we face up to the complexity of power and find out the possibility of transcendence.
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