Kuukausi: heinäkuu 2015
How to change political culture that desperately needs to do a turn but is not able to?
How to change this culture of distrust, bad rule and power of money? It is of course a million euro question. To take the easy way is not an answer.
http://wilsonquarterly.com/stories/every-joke-is-a-tiny-revolution/ ”Ultimately, political jams are made to persuade and bond any like-minded group together, while using wit to publicly ridicule the outsiders.”
Is there someone Rodin didn’t fuck?
Men are racy, masculine, righteous, fun-loving, talented, strong, doing whatever their gender is suppose to do as given to them, gender that has been conducting its calling without much objection because no one is opposing truly or giving other kinds of behavior models, when there is no one with authority telling what is not right to do, authority has to be taken. When authority thinks everything is alright and art represents the good in society it is time to look in to the mirror.
Women do the same as men they are crazy. She breaks the unwritten rules of what is good manner of the business. To my recollection something as good manners has not existed in art. An unknown female artist is a prey as is art student.
Sexism in art is not dealt with. It is alive as ever. To become an artist one has to start from dealing with sexism within the scene. It is so strikingly open, alive and approved that it is unbelievable. Civilized and sophisticated? Anything but. It is a legitimate fear that the person who addresses these issues openly will be shut out.
Payback time?
To my knowledge those who are paid more look down on those who are paid less. Those who are not paid at all are in worst situation. We get paid by what we deserve? I truly hope so. My simple conclusion is that humans are dictated by money, ranking of value of people is done by what one possesses and is paid. Money has straight forward correlation to professionalism and ability. The more one is paid the better that person is at what she or he does. How to prove one’s capabilities in this kind of system is to make friends with those who have got the money, impress them in their game and do the same as those who have money do. What kind of culture this creates is interesting and something we have right now. Credentials to one’s professionalism are more valid the more professionals one knows personally, the more opportunities one gets is via being known. It makes a culture of contacts not friends. To be able to say one is in is a sign of having wealth of relationships, circles which have made the illusion of making something good and valuable. Risks in closed up circles is that they rot inside without those who are inside noticing, without them having the courage to step outside that safe haven of security when they notice they should. Power corrupts, culture needs to be reinvented, something has to be destroyed. To fall high is scary but sometimes it has to happen. Wish it happened more often.
We expect art has testimonial value, sensitiveness and truthfulness for it to be appreciated as image of us.
What is lie in art is its unwillingness of changing when it thinks it changes all the time, inability to see in what kind of world we live in, inability or reluctance to confront the facts and do something about the issues that clearly aren’t right (not just show how things are wrong but do something to correct the situation), realities of people pictured, stories told, truths of those portrayed and those who make art can make a weird scene where we can be worried how things are wrong but not see how things truly are wrong in the business and what kind of impact art has in the world, good image is not good enough. Lie in art is to make a lookalike of everything is fine when they are not, not to do anything to sexism, discrimination, worker rights, authority of institutions, underpay and overpay and who actually gets paid. Art is evidently a needed industry but who needs it most? It is sad how terribly art is abused and undervalued especially by those who work within art. To say how things are is not a crime, not to say anything is.
Joensuu 2000
Why is body damaging? Or should the question be rather what kind of mind does not tolerate body?
Questions to be answered hopefully of what gets damaged by body, who damages what in the process of living with bodies, what is there to be protected? Something similar could be asked by why we allow the self-evident damage to be done by excessive mechanized sexualization in visual universe we inhabit? Something needs to be sold and it is going cheap. Constant intrusion of purity is an attack done by entertainment industry. When art does the same there is a scandal. What other is it about than hypocrisy, living in a new world with old virtues and vices. Where is empowerment and who has it?
Thought of the obscene body, body parts, impropriety, bodily obscenity which is linked to build and controlled civilization, concepts of shame, honor, purity, denial, evil, temptation and sin. Corpus that is indecent all the time even clothed must be punished also all the time to prove goodness and strength of mind, ability to control oneself and capability to decency. Our sexuality which is inappropriate, difficult to the very core is on display everywhere for consuming purposes and is still denied, humiliated and put to shame. Advertising and entertainment is according to creators of business talk empowering and broadening horizons, opening minds to human sexual exploration. Obscenity is in contradiction to nature and to nature in us. The more we put nature to shame and sweep it under the carpet the more problematic the issue gets. To be damaged by act of intercourse, seeing nudity, being nude, having to deal with sexuality and complexity it brings is at large a mighty part of nature within us and part of all. The difficulty to understanding this practical everyday part of life seems to be very common and around we see a very sexualized world.
http://thenewinquiry.com/essays/spinoza-in-a-t-shirt/
As there is thought to be a bond between art and exploring human sexuality, art and the dangerous animal in us, it is strange how forcefully sex is banned in art. Such prohibitions, raising eyebrows in embarrassment tell of artists not having much power within art that public opinion and public image play an important role what kind of art can be displayed and seen in art context. There is a strong stereotype of sexually liberal artist, female and male caricature almost which has been made via art history by telling stories. Liberal, someone who is disregarding social norms, such stereotype which is an image from a dusty book than real life. Strangely I have encountered this stereotype of an artist and it is dusty. Sex and drugs and rock and roll.
Why is female body obscene?
One could expect an obvious answer: we are used to thinking it is. We are used to thinking sex is obscene, shameful, unmentionable erected and wet, awkward and personal. We expect the obvious, a normal and we seem to know the answer for what is normal. As I ask what is obscene, in general it is nudity, sexual act, showing of genitalia, to show interest in sex and porn. I think it is not that clear at all, because I resent the normal point of view, obvious answers and see porn everywhere, pornographication and critique of this phenomenon, it makes me wonder why the fuzz and closing of eyes. It is too beautiful to be proud of one’s porno-body in front of people, it is too much to take because of the consequences, looks, talk, ideas, dirtiness, it is the most secretive of all and to be revealed only in private, something of your own and still not. Nudity is not public, is restricted as common rule from viewing. To stand in front of someone and be judged by one’s nakedness, one’s body and what it looks like. Naked body is meaningful and society has a need to make it meaningless? Or society is scared of looking at bodies and what they hold, what they do and make, what comes where, what is what, who likes what, who gets to judge and make value out of bodies that feel and need. Well body is not meaningless in a society where it is strictly prohibited from existing. It has plenty of meaning in such culture. Where there is freedom of body, body has different kind of existence and purpose for culture. People who are not afraid of sexuality, to look at images of sexual bodies see themselves differently than those who are scared of that content, of that truth revealed. The more one hides the more there is to reveal? How to reveal and why what one hides? What is the scare?
When we look at pornographic pictures it is for pleasure. It is mostly not anatomical examination. It is not to see how muscles behave in certain position, what kinds of positions do the actors take as they fuck and what kinds of angles do the cinematographers choose when they picture the scene. Clichés, clichés, stereotypes after a while they are too clear and make one yawn. Obscene fades after exposing oneself for the so-called filth. Numbness is the one disturbing one’s mind, how oblivious and indifferent one gets. It is human body and what we do with it which make our culture, act of body, what we are meant to do with it and can do, what it is for. What can I make of it other than explore it as I explore myself, since I am seen as sexual and that point of view is heavily planed on me. So I take it and make it my own.
Angel baby

