Re: Re: [-empyre-] race, net-art, strategy

[<aka.leafa@xtra.co.nz>]

I thank you all for the engaging discussion
politicisation is the natural consequence of art that disrupts the comfortability of the viewer. If the majority of those viewing have a negative experience of the work, then the work has been successful in invoking the right questions or stirring up conversation , as we are doing now. I thank Damali for her bravery.There are various responses to various ghettos, be it white> black> art> or literature> church>...one can respond in various ways to this...this is a line from a rap by NAUGHTY BY NATURE...
 (this is not in any way directed at anyone) 
   **If you ain't been to the ghetto.
     Don't come to the ghetto.
    'Cause you won't understand the ghetto,
     so stay the fuck out of the ghetto.**
from the song Ghetto Bastard >>

OR one can respond as we are ...in a living discourse.hERE is a quote that I love of Michael Brenson's = 
*****The new curator ( artist) understands and is able to articulate, touch and mobilise people and encourage debates about spirituality, creativity, identity and the nation. The texture and tone of the curator's voice, the voice it welcomes or excludes, and the shape of the conversation it sets in motion are essential to the texture and perception of contemporary art..." Art Journal Winter '98.******
I applaud you Damali for your clever and inclusive wit...let those who have ears hear. Great comments too Keith! malo lava. Leafa 
> 
> From: damali ayo <damali@damaliayo.com>
> Date: 2003/07/31 Thu AM 04:50:58 GMT+12:00
> To: soft_skinned_space <empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au>
> Subject: Re: [-empyre-] race, net-art, strategy
> 
> keith-
> 
> well put. to take it a step further, because racism is disturbing (at 
> best) i'd hope that anyone at all who sees work about racism finds it 
> disturbing. what i love about holding up a mirror to our society, is 
> how easy it is to show us how truly unattractive we can be. i find 
> this artist-created self-awareness to be the a disturbing tool 
> because it is society and the individual regurgitated. ingested 
> through the artist and spit back in the face of the viewer/audience 
> who generated it in the first place.
> 
> and damn. it's fun to do.
> 
> i agree that all art is political. any art that represents people 
> makes a comment on race and gender and other issues contained in 
> identity/ identity politics. it's inevitable. nothing is neutral, and 
> i wish we would wake up as a world and realize that. what is 
> fascinating is when we see the commentary engaged in any work of art, 
> whether it be a figure drawing or a painted still life, or one that 
> engages the net as medium.
> 
> art isn't meant to make us feel any one particular emotion, or make 
> us think any one particular thing, but i do believe that art is made 
> to make us think and feel. if it doesn't get rid of it.
> 
> damali
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