[-empyre-] art and ethics

[G.H. Hovagimyan]

gh comments below:

On Jan 24, 2010, at 2:12 PM, Christiane Robbins wrote:

>
> Well then,  a suggestion - perhaps you could re-frame the conceit of
> complicity in relationship to an art  (and ethical)  practice during
> the current moment  -  perhaps in relationship to the old news of the
> corporate global landscape/fifedoms ( ala Saatchi and/or Deitch- the
> privatized public domain )... or perhaps in relationship to a
> corporation as a global avatar.... or perhaps in relationship to any
> number of imaginings


As an artist I've always stood against the corporations and their mode  
of business.  I think it's about continuing to live as an artist and  
make art in spite of all the promises and seductions. I also dislike  
the idea of artists who engage in socially relevant practices. I find  
that dilutes the position of being an artist turning them into social  
workers.  I don't believe art should be any sort of psychic healing or  
respite or fun zone or lifestyle choice etc.. I think being an artist  
is about arguing above and beyond the current intellectual and  
political millieu.  Optimally an artist liberates themselves from all  
of that. They find a place that is actual freedom, perhaps poetic and  
anarchic.

G.H. Hovagimyan
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