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Round figures, something we see often in news fly by. Do we get numbed by the overdosing of numeric info, graphs of how much? What things cost make what they are worth or is it the other way round? How things are seen and handled, priced, talked about, saved or discarded. Wars are expensive, but education is precious, healthcare is too expensive. Museums are meant to shine like diamonds of the cities, priced temples of civilization, education, art, creativity of people. What else? What else do museums of art represent? Commercialism, consumerism, luxury, grandiose and status, power and what is valued? Can they critique themselves? Are they able to keep up with the change (do personnel equal the museum, bad management equal bad museum concept, bad working environment?), mold themselves for the needs of art (needs of people), not needs of museums or is it the same thing? Are art museums art embodied and creators of museum complexes, brands, franchise doing service for art? There is an awful lot of strange interaction, planning and shady promises hanging in the air which all look somewhat crooked for many reasons. Millions are peanuts for some, fairly abstract and large for many, but it is a daily routine to go through what things cost. What art costs is the shadiest of all. Small things make big things, but for some reason spectacle is the only thing that is the honey to attract tourists, art tourists. This is what is assumed. How do you measure when there is no limit but unlimited options to own and exploit, hidden and without showing true intentions, what is what, to make more money to make more value for brands for owners for rulers for player for money men with the help of tourists. Is it a question of heroism, progress of art? I doubt it.
It has been all along Western civilization has been exploring foreign cultures this civilization has refused to understand and know those who it likes to explore and exploit bringing progress and development thinking it is something better and above. It is us and them, those others whom we don’t even want to understand. They are so different. To say of not understanding culture of interacting in our country, our society, our system functioning to benefit art life and variety of it, how we maintain system of ours, how we think things should be done. To say of being naive and not understanding how we do things in Finland is more than odd for people whose nation is planning a trip to Mars. You do not understand foreign countries nor people is at the core of arrogance and stupidity of you nation. Monetary value calculated, planned winnings, honor and imperialist attitude of yours are the flaws of yours you do not want to change, because you do not see them flaws but strengths, your eternal way of life which must not be disturbed. Short-sighted ideas and plain force is nothing but surface, expensive and futile leading to chain reaction of failure with no end. It is good to learn from mistakes made. You fail to do even that. And you dare to say those who object your fucked up project are against art. Fuck you. Your anti-progress, anti-democratic system and thinking sickens me.
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To become nothing but a grin. To become an army of grins, to form accurate geometrical patterns in grin air on face, grinning, to stretch your face in a way it satisfies those who grin back at you and expect you to be grinning the same, the same, so that we would not be any different but the same in mutual understanding, and there would not be fear nor doubt, but all grinning the same exact similarity of smiling in which we can sigh in relief between our teeth of not needing to do anything more. Because there is not anything more as long as my face will do and it will do as I wish it to match the everlasting grin.
It is a culture which adores youthfulness and narrow beauty standards and wishes everyone to follow and want the same, believe the same lie of what is beautiful and what is worth while to pursue and reach for, worth while to dream about. All the people who want to represent the same image of clean perfection with piles of money is a weird world of brainwash, manipulation and greed, idea that you do not have any other alternative than to fit in, that any other kind of success is not possible because it would not be success. It is a monoculture even though it is said to have been a melting pot without having melted much in, not inhaling but holding breath. Culture that uses surveillance as God is on its side putting oneself on the position of God because it has the right, it is on the right. This culture has clear fascist ideals which it does not admit to be fascist because fascism for them equals Nazism and that is long gone. Fascist ideals which it implements freely without having to deal with the reality of its ideology because it denies every allegation and wrong doing or that there might be anything wrong. Fascism and imperialism which ideologies it also spreads around the globe as good and hugely profitable and therefore accepted. Those who speak against are against all of them, unlikable, rude and terrorists who get propaganda kind of accusations and will be painted malaise. It is not good to be against something that is good, right? Culture of instant gratification, satisfaction that one will want more of because you are worth it. What one is worth in a culture like this is as much as one has wealth nothing more.
Here comes the joke:
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/tv/showtracker/la-et-st-david-letterman-retires-history-top-ten-list-20150501-htmlstory.html”Letterman’s ”Late Show” program on CBS. They were originally intended as a parody of Good Housekeeping magazine’s ”Most Admired Men” list.
The topic of the first list was the inauspicious ”Top Ten Words That Almost Rhyme With ’Peas.'”
Yes I love Seinfeld.
Article picks addressing important feminist issues:
http://msmagazine.com/blog/2015/05/13/aclu-goes-after-hollywoods-gender-gap/ ”Without the insight and experience of women, the entertainment media runs the risk of telling stories that not only fail the Bechdel Test but also rob audiences of a deeper understanding of the female experience. … There is a huge audience for storytelling that gives voice to everyone standing in line behind all the straight white men.”
http://blog.eros.com/feminist-porn/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
To think and imagine utopias is essential to creation, to dreaming, essential to change, to revolution, to democracy, equality, to everything that can be seen as aspects of diverse life and making progress. Progress on the other hand is what people do if they are let freely to create and imagine and progress of man is what is seen as positive part of people’s lives and an evolving society. Progress usually brings prosperity, that is at least the idea of progress. Utopia is part of diversity, evolution and art. In this sense it is sheer idiocy to reject weirdness, oddities and be afraid of new forms of creating, be afraid failure and ridicule. To me the whole of art has become more and more afraid of all kinds of cunts and dicks, suffocating making of art, suffocating creativity and joy of making art. True professionals do not dictate art or what is art, what artist is like, what artist looks like and what artist should do. Making business has become more important than what art itself could achieve. Money has become important value indicator in art. Value is directly seen as monetary issue. This narrows dramatically the scene of art, what is art and what is the meaning of art for people and society. When glory and fame, glitter and grandiose are the ruling elements in the art scene marginal is loathed, kept poor and silenced into invisibility. Marginal is made small and insignificant. This is ironic since it is the marginal that is vital to any art to reinvent itself. When you clean up too much you end up whipping and wiping away the error, stench, dirt, filth, laughter, sex, sadism, criminal, joy, crack, desire, unknown, possibility of finding, unthinkable, strange ideas, ugly, shame, fear, all that humans can do wrong and do all over again wrong, inability, disability, insecurity and so on. If these are not what you want art to be, maybe art is not your thing, even if you think it is your thing and a plug inside your arse, do not expect others to do your way.
Majakollektiivi Timanttimetsä 