Hypocrisy is to hide. How interesting pretence is can be argued and must be.

17 huhtikuun, 20179 maaliskuun, 2018 | Henna Timanttimetsä

Hide your true self, hide your intentions, hide what it actually is you’re doing and to prevent from changing, changing yourself and how things are done. It takes something which most are not ready to go and do. The thought of losing and loss is too great, so to talk about social change is much more safe. I use the word scene instead of using the concept of art world. Art world to me resonates only size and the business which circulates wealth or doesn’t. What gets shared is interesting to think about. To define art world is like defining a construct that is eating its own tail which does not want to interact in any other way than what is possible for that beast as it is unable to think in any other way. To revolve unchanged talking about social change in fancy spaces how ’high art’ is going to take part in social action which is making change which very though is somewhat odd.

It could be heartwarming if arts was in any way doing what it says, being transparent, reliable, other than massive tool for propaganda, producing toys, extravaganza, making impressions to fool and for fools. Yes I would like to believe those with money and power, I really would and please come and ask for taxpayers money to make social change. Why I don’t see the effect needed because corruption and false talk has made it clear that to make social change there must be a total turnover in values, in ways of doing, the concept of fine art is not to change anything but stay the same. To make art temples and sites for tourists is not in any way making social change. It is doing the opposite. Sure tourism brings in the money. To think money changes everything is thinking wrong in the first place. Contempt is so obvious and present I don’t know what other social change would mean than on very personal level to examine one’s behaviour, falsehood, hypocrisy, why one does what one does: what are the true motives of making and doing anything. To take offence is so normal.

One problem is the need for money, the flaunting of money, the show off of money, talk about money, that money brings value and only money. It is very destructive what comes to the environment the spectacle and valuing of the material. Art institutions like to say they work to change things. It is bizarre as very little has changed what comes to art business, position of the artist, where art is shown and what makes value in art which is the institutional presence and expertise, professionalism which also follows money. It is where artist must be shown if a traditional artistic career is what we must pursue.

https://hyperallergic.com/369762/a-syllabus-for-making-work-about-race-as-a-white-artist-in-america/

https://www.guernicamag.com/siri-hustvedt-both-sides-of-the-chasm/?platform=hootsuite

https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2017/04/is-the-push-for-women-in-stem-hurting-female-artists/522915/?utm_source=atltw

Kulturkampf Of The Left? Extremes, Be Gone!

https://www.socialeurope.eu/2017/03/kulturkampf-left-extremes-gone/

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The Urgency of Art in a Dangerous, Rapidly Changing World

With the first Culture Summit in Abu Dhabi, Foreign Policy seeks to highlight the power of collective imagination as a force for good.

http://foreignpolicy.com/2017/04/10/the-urgency-of-art-in-a-dangerous-rapidly-changing-world-united-arab-emirates-culture-summit/

Luring the senses I suppose

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When we aim to attract what do we do? We manipulate and change our appearance.

17 huhtikuun, 20179 maaliskuun, 2018 | Henna Timanttimetsä

Question is a multilevel one. It is to ask what is attractive, how do we define attractive and what do we make of it. Value of looking like perfection is high. How do we make ourselves attractive, more and more attractive? What attracts us and why? Why should one attract when it is almost all there is to a person? It is an asset to gain something and currency, it is of course a matter of survival. What are motives to attract other than that, to feel good about yourself, yes and making things happen. Is it a give and take situation, a very simple one where my looks tells the other what I am for, what I want and who I am? How does attraction change along the years? What kind of people are attracted to each other? What is the attraction, a lure there? What is there to get, is it all good or something to be careful for? Is attraction the interesting part of us, does it make an interesting person, yes doesn’t it and in what way, the one who is attractive and the one who gets attracted to?

Interesting part is the what is there for me. I do this and this to match an ideal to please the eye and mind which is accepting or rejecting. Attraction is a calculation and a play. We deem ugly or beautiful within seconds, all kinds of reactions come forward. We know what we like and usually reasons to like someone’s appearance are very straightforwardly sexual. This is seen normal and something we are pushed to think, not profoundly but on surface. To question this in any way is odd. In an era of images we make judgments based on looks very hastily still even though we know it is an image, 2-dimensional picture, an illusion, maybe there is only one dimension. Where the interest lies is merely the physical attraction which to us is highly important and via which we move on in the world. All revolves around it, looks and sex and what we see, how we evaluate the seen and what does it mean what we just saw.

To modify and manipulate our appearance we can make ourselves more attractive more alluring and more interesting to be more popular and successful. To evaluate value of success which comes via looks one can say: should I be interested? What happens when you do the opposite and do not pay attention to your looks? And what does physical attraction mean when it is the most important measure of one’s worth?

What you don’t want a blowjob anymore? Oh dear, how unfortunate.

Come play with me

17 huhtikuun, 20179 maaliskuun, 2018 | Henna Timanttimetsä

In search of a porno monster

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Never a dull moment: we need something interesting to look at to be interesting, interested in. To have a curious mind what do we need? What?

11 huhtikuun, 20179 maaliskuun, 2018 | Henna Timanttimetsä

Wondering what do we pay attention to: To open aggression more than to micro-aggression? Difficult to say but explosions do get our attention if they happen near-by, but we are hugely sensitive to any kind of hostility and get offended by lots of things. Hostility detectors are on and almost anything can offend. Does it tell we are scared of primal negative emotions and outbursts by them? Unable to analyse, understand or accept them as part of our character? Somehow yes. The censoring is one symptom. Self-censoring and public censoring of any behaviour that does not play by the rules and is causing emotional traumas, we are in need of safe spaces because of this anger, disagreement which is disturbing. Any kind of disagreement is qualified as hate speech.

Micro-aggression which is much more difficult to point out, prove and verbally oppose to, find and point out wrong especially when at work, but micro-aggressions are everywhere. I think we fail to see most of it as aggression because it is wrapped up in a wrapper. Although we are quite sensitive to any kind of aggression, jumpy almost, be it rudeness, thoughtlessness, problems in communication between people are present constantly and aggression is the problem. Any wrong kind of word and thought is a trigger. ”Don’t oppose me in this because I am absolutely correct” is the thought. Usually disturbance is nicely swept under the carpet and not discussed but damned as crazy and inappropriate and the person unstable in need of help or beyond help, labelled most definitely. Some people can begin to communicate by being blunt and direct in their words and actions when nothing else works anymore which is seen vulgar, having run out of options, a kind of last resort before totally losing it, a method of getting attention or just telling it straight. How straight are we and should be and is it possible in the first place?

We really don’t want to offend, now, right? To seem like a nice likeable person is so important. It is a very forbidden tool: raging, but somehow it resonates with honesty. Destruction which has its place. The person is showing something that takes a lot of barriers to break before it happens. Raging is so scary one can become scared of oneself afterwards: how was I capable of such anger and hate or one option is to feel content of finally having been able to do it. We are to maintain coolness and correctness to maintain our faces and respectability, continuity. What do we want to continue is one thing to consider. To choose the right situation for being mad, is it the therapist office, traffic jam or at home?

Something gets broken in an instant in a world where subtle, tactful and sensitive tactics are used to keep censoring up. Good to know ways to deal with people, recognise, rehearse and learn how to seem civil and wanting to avoid conflicts. It is equivalent of doing things well: oh look how well she handles that tough person/customer. It truly is a skill. Wanting to stay in that comfortable space without testing the limits, belong to a peaceful and nice environment where everybody can enjoy their stay and pretend happy, that all is well. We are in a constant play where what oneself is can go lost because the play narrows us down, requires behaviour that dictates and desires to remove any personality that might be disturbing to customers, sales, public image. Anybody like loud laughter, out of ordinary improper clothing, standing out of posture, smelling weird, doing something what others are not doing at the moment, shouting etc. any out of this ordinary is weird and must be avoided as dangerous.

https://thebaffler.com/the-poverty-of-theory/the-real-world-trump-edition ”Instead of confronting the disconnect between what reality is and what we expect it to be, the mass news audience seeks—indeed desires—confirmation of the latter. “By harboring, nourishing, and ever enlarging our extravagant expectations,” Boorstin writes, “we create the demand for the illusions with which we deceive ourselves. And which we pay others to make to deceive us.””

https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/a-moral-image-of-the-world/ ”We are living in a time of unprecedented weakness and demoralization in the humanities; the sheer number of humanities majors is plunging, and whole academic departments threaten to disappear. Richard Eldridge’s Images of History: Kant, Benjamin, Freedom, and the Human Subject should be of interest to anyone hoping to grasp why,”