Miksi puhua vallankumouksesta?

Me olevinaan ymmärrämme mikä on vallankumous kun sanomme sanan. Siinä on jotakin todella voimakasta ja viettelevää. Tarkoitamme termillä ja idealla jotakin oletettua, ajatuksellista ja visuaalista, jokainen jotakin omaa, aivan kuten väreistä puhuessamme näemme ne subjektiivisesti. Joka subjektiivisuus kenties yksi poliittisen vallankumouksen perusongelmista: jokainen haluaa jotakin tiettyä, kuinka saada kaikki haluamaan samaa asiaa ja löytää yhteiset keinot päämäärän saavuttamiseksi. Väkivalta on ollut tehokas keino. Väkivallan ja kuoleman pelko saa ihmiset taipumaan. Uhkailua käytetään edelleen jotta ihmiset saadaan toimimaan halutulla tavalla. Ihmisten vapaa tahto ja oikeudet ovat oleellinen osa modernia ja demokraattista, mutta kuinka istuttaa ihmisiin velvollisuuden tunto, myötätunto ja kunniallisuus? Nämähän ovat  perusarvoja joita on pidetty arvossa Jumalaa ja herroja peläten. Toisenlaista kunnioitusta ja velvollisuutta tarvitaan tässä ajassa. Kunnioitus ja velvollisuus jotka ovat kuin reliikkejä, koska arvostamme vapauttamme päättää itse kaikesta, myös siitä kuinka käyttäydymme. Oma päätäntävalta ja itsenäisyys ovat arvossa niin kauan kuin ei ole riippuvainen ja koe velvollisuutta kohdella toista ihmistä ihmisarvoisesti esimerkiksi. Kun kokee olevansa niin vapaa, että voi tehdä mitä haluaa eli ihmisellä on valta ylitse muiden. Tämähän on tilanne kiusaamistapauksissa. Kyseessä on vallankäyttöongelma ja vääristynyt käsitys omasta vallasta ja tärkeydestä.

Elämme vallankumousten muokkaamassa maailmassa ja väkivalta on oikeutettu niistä suurimmassa osassa. Gandhin väkivallattomassa vastarinnassa Gandhi itse kuoli luotiin, arabivallankumouksissa pääpaino oli väkivallattomuudessa ja tiedon levittämisessä ja kumoukset on tukahdutettu voimakeinoin, laulavassa vallankumouksessa Baltian maissa Venäjä yritti kukistaa kapinalliset ja useita ihmisiä menetti henkensä eli kun kansa nousee tyranniaa vastaan väkivalta joka tappaa tulee voimalla jostakin muualta ja oikealta. Oikeisto on nykyään se joka puhuu vallankumouksesta juuri sen historian kautta haluten vallankumousta jossa vallankäyttäjä vaihtuu sopivaan. Vallankumous on perinteisesti vastaus vallankäyttöongelmaan ja kollektiiviseen kiusaamiseen tai hankkiutuminen eroon vääränlaisesta johtajasta ja johtamistavasta, kuten esimerkiksi Chilessä tapahtunut sotilasvallankaappaus 1973 https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chilen_sotilasvallankaappaus_1973, jossa sosialistijohtaja Salvador Allende sai surmansa ja alkoi diktatuuri Yhdysvaltojen tuella. Historia jonka kaikki tuntevat. Vallankumous-sanan positiivinen varaus on useiden vallankumouksellisten ansiota jotka ovat kuoleman uhalla muuttaneet yhteiskuntaa. Oman hengen menettämisen uhalla, koska asiat ovat tärkeitä ja se mitä on mahdollista saavuttaa on sen arvoista, vaikka ja koska tuo saavutus on asetettu mahdottomaksi tehtäväksi. Tämä mission impossible on sankariteko joka vaatii äärimmäisihmisyyttä, äärimmäisiä tekoja, vaikeita ratkaisuja yleisellä ja henkilökohtaisella tasolla joihin on oltava valmis, koska asia on tärkeä, tärkeämpi kuin oma hyvinvointi ja mukavuus.

Asettaa itsensä alttiiksi kritiikille, kidutukselle, halveksunnalle, kuolemalle, hylkäämiselle, ulkopuolelle jättämiselle, katoamiselle, vaientamiselle jne. Ihmisen lannistamisen keinot ovat lukuisat ja kun menettämisen pelko on voimakas, kuka uskaltaa ottaa riskin jonka johdosta menettää kaiken. Mihin siis uskoa, koska uskosta on pitkälti kysymys, kun tavoitellaan mahdotonta ja miten tuo usko määrittelee mitä ihminen elämässä valitsee ja tekee. Millaiset voimat ovat edessä jotka yrittävät estää tavoitteen saavuttamisen? Sama pätee taiteessa, politiikassa, elämäntavoissa: kuinka elää elämänsä kun ulkopuolelta ja koko ajan toistetaan samaa ja halutaan pysyä junnaavasti samoissa toimintakaavoissa ja ajattelutavoissa. Ne jotka ovat silmätikkuja ovat niitä jotka erottuvat joukosta aina yhä uudestaan. Joukosta erottuminen on edelleen huono juttu. Se on se erikoisuus josta otetaan kiinni joka halutaan muuttaa samanlaiseksi kuin kaikki muutkin ovat. Uskalluksen puute ja laumasieluisuus vievät meitä yhä edelleen. Tästä kertoo yhteiskunnan sisäänlämpiävyys, luottamuksen puute, haluttomuus ymmärtää eriäviä mielipiteitä tai täydellinen kyvyttömyys siihen, oman edun tavoittelu ja oman aseman pönkittäminen, johon ei mahdu asioiden muuttuminen tai muuttaminen,  koska silloin voi oma etu heikentyä. Sitä voi pohtia miksi suomalaisessa yhteiskunnassa yhteisten asioiden parantaminen on kovan työn takana, kuten näyttää olevan kaikkialla, ja näiden kollektiivisten etujen ja parannusten huonontaminen on kovin helppoa ja tapahtuu käden heilautuksella.

Yhdysvalloissa on heittona sanottu että huonompiosaisten tilanteen yhä jatkuva huonontaminen voi mahdollisesti johtaa siihen että vallankumous on käsillä. Tilanteen huonontumista voi miettiä, että mikä se piste on, joka on niin huono josta huono-osaisten vallankumous alkaa. Huono-osaisten vallankumousliikkeet ovat olleet vasemmistojohtoisia. Sitten on se toinen leiri eli vastapuoli, joka ei kestä Marxilaisia vallankumouksia, vallankumouksellisia ajatuksia, joissa yhteinen hyvä jaetaan. He tekevät myös vallankumouksia. Kiinnostavaa on tämänhetkinen Yhdysvallat ja kuinka huono-osaiset äänestivät presidentinvaaleissa. Mikä on huono-osaisten agenda tällä hetkellä? Onko heillä agendaa? Onko heillä aikaa, voimavaroja ja kiinnostusta kapinallisuuteen? Pelko omien etujen menettämisestä taitaa olla päällimmäinen ja ymmärrettävä pelko, kun vähästä viedään kaikki vähäkin, mitä jää jäljelle. Mistä köyhä ponnistaa ja miten surkeiksi on asioiden mentävä? Ne jotka käyttävät valtaa voivat käyttää sitä hyvin murskaavasti. Puhutaan yleisesti fasismista ja fasismin uudesta tulemisesta, vaikka ei se poissa ole ollutkaan. Fasisteiksi kutsutut ovat tehneet vallankumouksensa varsin hissukseen ja ehkä se on oljenkorsi köyhälle, joka näkee eliitin ulottumattomissa tekevän mitä haluaa ja jonne köyhällä ei ole asiaa. Eliitti tekee asioita jotka ovat olleet ristiriidassa eliitin sanottuja arvoja kohtaan ja vastoin lupauksia eli eliitti on valehdellut ja ajatellut omaa etuaan liikaa. Voidaan kysyä millä tavalla vallankumous mitataan, onnistuminen ja epäonnistuminen, muutoksen tapa, laajuus ja kuinka muutos saavutetaan eli kuinka vallankumous tehdään, mikä riittää muu kuin asetettu tavoite? Millä tavalla muutoksen ajatellaan olevan vallankumous, onko vallankumous tietoinen vai tiedostamaton, hyväksytty vai kielletty, vapaaehtoinen vai pakotettu valinta? Millä tavalla valinnoillamme teemme vallankumousta ja mikä on vallankumouksen charmi? Charmi on ilmeisesti onnistumista, koska se vokottelee. Ehkä vallankumouksessa on lopulta kyse johtajuuden löytymisestä.

Ketkä sitten ovat fasisteja tai vallankumouksellisia fasisteja? Slavoj Zizek ei pidä nykyhallintoja länsimaissa fasistisina, ei edes Trumpin hallintoa https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8f41HqGbnA. Linkki keskusteluun jossa Zizek keskustelee Will Selfin kanssa vallankumouksesta ja kuinka se tapahtuisi tai onko muutos mahdollinen.

Fasismi määritelmän mukaan on autoritaarinen äärinationalismi yhdistyneenä korporatistiseen järjestelmään, josta lisää löydät https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fasismi. Määritelmän mukaan fasismia on vaikea rajata ja määrittää, koska liike on hajanainen ja paikallisesti sitoutunut. Itse ymmärrän tämän juuri samaisena oman edun tavoitteluna jossa puhutaan ja toimitaan eri tavoin ja joka on vaikea tavoittaa tahi osoittaa. Puhutaan niin että saadaan mahdollisimman paljon ihmisiä asian taakse ja kun on tullut menestystä ryhdytään toteuttamaan tosiasiallista suunnitelmaa. On olemassa asioita joista ei puhuta niinkuin ne ovat, koska julmuudelle ei löydy avoimesti tarpeeksi suurta kannattajakuntaa kun ryhdytään politikoimaan. On puhuttava kuinka asioiden pitäisi olla ja puhutaan kuinka eliitti tekee hallaa työläisten asemalle. Työläisten asema on aina se joka saa tunteet esille. He jotka tekevät ruumiillisen työn, yhteiskunnan toiminnan kannalta tarpeellisen ja tärkeän perustyön josta palkka on minimi tai vähän enemmän, vähän koulutusta vaativa ja suurta massaa puhutteleva, vähän arvostettu ja aliarvioitu työpanos. Aliarviointi ja vähättely ovat sosiaalisen epätasa-arvoisuuden kulmapilareita. Ihmisen arvo rakentuu työlle. Mitä työtä hän tekee ja millaisen palkan ihminen saa, hän on sen arvoinen. Joten vallankumous on aina kytemässä koska vallankäyttö toisen yli on ihmisyyden perustarve. Mikä parempi tapa käyttää valtaa kuin halveksunta.

 

 

 

Motherfuck

Co-worker/ Kanssatyöläinen 2002

Cowardice is the cancer.

She has to be beaten down, so that she won’t have any feeling of power left in her. She will be easy to govern when she is scared and does not understand her rights. That she feels herself powerless, insignificant, scared, alone, defenceless and pathetic in her given role which is inescapable. She feels subhuman without power, is treated as such because she has no way to defend herself. Her power is to settle and submit to those who hold power over her. She begins to believe this is true and there is nothing she can do to change that. Lot of women around the world are still treated this way, as cattle who do not have dignity, who are not granted permission for having self-worth, to be something else than beings living under someone else’s will.
It has been a conversation once, maybe still today, do women have souls. Soul which is a sign of divinity within which men have. Divinity of men, divine in men who are godly, who act accordingly and are allowed to think women do not have the same divinity within. Women are not worthy because there is the divine that is against them.

Co-worker/kanssatyöläinen 2002

At vanity fair, wearing my garbage

 

Under lucky stars: how are the stars lucky?

How do you define luck? It is a very subjective matter, what we consider as good things to have and happen in life, to grow from, maybe, a pleasant place to dwell and form as a person. It is like when you won something, a competition, situation of being conceived and further developed, when partly randomly you become a human infant. When you are born if you are lucky you grow to be more you, bigger and bigger, more aware hopefully or maybe a human infant in an adult’s body, or something which is decided is you. This is you, hopefully you’ll like it. This is what you should be is still a very common thought which comes from outside of you. We are defined by other people constantly. There is not a moment we would not be monitored when there is more people than you there. Some people are monitored more than others I have noticed, wonder why… Many believe whole-heartedly that norms made are what we should play by, that we are here to be filled with joy and the norms make this filling happen and if that is not happening we feel miserable and blame the feminists for ruining such a good thing. What brings us joy then, living fulfilling lives in comparison to others without need to change, just to match up? Crises are there to wake us up, loss of luck, out of luck situation. To keep on winning and how to is a trick because it is difficult, demands strength and effort. How do we measure the winning, the jack pot, what is it worth and what is the jack pot in the first place, what do we value? How to win in being and becoming you? Or what is your impact within the bigger picture, you feel lucky to be able to live for yourself without concern over others?

Welfare state is a result of decades of hard work. People having build a welfare state and thinking despite where the child is born he or she can have an education, free meal, healthcare, sense of security and support. It does not remove the fact that there are people who would like to see such situation gone, that there are people who think we are bound to luck, circumstances and that is a good thing, the roughness is now lacking. Something which makes us value more what we have got. We don’t have to struggle as humans as much as we should. It has made us lazy especially in thinking. People have become spoiled, naive and arrogant. This much I can agree with. It has come across many times that I should feel lucky I am born in a country where I can realise my goals and dreams just as anybody, sure I can as long as my dreams and goals stay within the given frame. Frame is kind of too small. Don’t be fooled I feel very fortunate and welfare state has been proven effective in my life. To be an artist with my background is an oddity which I find funny as hell.

Here too there is a price to pay for a woman who does as she pleases, as she chooses. My decisions have always been out of the ordinary. Freedom and luck are about being able to choose aren’t they. How about responsibility, how about originality, how about something to say? As it has occurred women are not allowed to break gender norms that easily or at all without it being a scandal, wrong and an outrage of some sort, art being a very fine example. It has also been shown that gender norms are very much violent and intact, changing slowly in slowmo and to repeat why feminism is important must be done individually like drawing a map. You do not hate men or do you? Ok, let’s get this hate thing sorted..

Freedoms men have manifest the problematical within the gender roles. Being able to choose because of physicality, being bigger and traditionally seen as more of this and that, as idiotic as it sounds, is there, it is ’easy’ and society is letting them freely exercise their maleness and the role of a leader. To let girls be bossy is one way to get the thing solved. Me being male is a horrifying alternative but I must try it out. I have a process of wiping feminine role of a subject. Maleness is aggression which women can’t exercise without being labelled crazy and hateful, having lost femininity. For men there is more authority in what they say, stature and credibility in what they do, isn’t there. This is like self-evident. There is black and white, small and big, bad and good, men and women. Whereas woman can prove to be very able many times over and still not be given credit for what she does, quite the opposite. What does she think she is. For her to be grand is to play like a man. Fortune and luck are somewhat different for the sexes. They are very material, the more and bigger you are in the right way the better and the bigger you will become and the more things you can make and have the more you are. Respectability and fulfilment by gender and possessions is a very male outlook on things and gender but yet again women play the same game. To impress via size and amount, measurements and possessions and we all should have that to feel good about ourselves?

For some it is impossible to understand and see the luck they have had and share. It is taken for granted or seen a possession which must be earned. Maybe luck is the wrong kind or there is no such thing. Woman is the filling and the only luck she can have is her looks, oh the blessings of appearance and visuals. They run the world but are cheap. It is confusing. If she is difficult meaning she thinks for herself it could it be seen lucky, she is capable of thinking?

The situation can be she does not understand the good man brings, the good man thinks is the good. When you have every material thing but you feel alone, you still do not feel lucky, you need to feel wanted. Loneliness is the defining thing even though you have got all man could possibly want and you like to talk about this all. Bragging about luck but failing to appreciate it is the disease. The infantile need to feel wanted and loved is there even though you have got what is called success by the terms of material modern man. To be born male is a stroke of luck but he feels partial unless he does not have what is expected of man to have. Tragedy of being male are also the expectations. To feel successful, loved and lucky, basis is on the feeling. It is an irrational state, an out of control loop where you think you have the control because of what you have, have been able to accomplish, own and maybe feel unlucky because of what you do not have. This eats you up. Isn’t this what TV and social media is full of nowadays.

We are lured to think happy is what we should be feeling and we think we know what things bring us happiness, which feeling is tightly connected to being lucky, having luck. Whether you like to dwell in feeling unlucky in some ways or are able to feel lucky for what you have got is a matter of maturity and looking at things as they are. Do we see people as they are or via made lenses?
When your chances living your life fully (whatever that means) as a creation of your own is not only a narcissist daydream but something we can all pursue without exploiting others and without hurting anyone in the process, that is fortunate. Idea of luck is what I make of is kind of interesting as we seem to think it is something where we are born into, or with, and are granted like a gift, partly yes and partly no.
To be born under lucky stars is a moment, like a wish for the baby that she or he will be lucky in her/his life. Lucky is of course to be born in the first place. Lucky to be on this earth. To be born screaming, to be born a boy with all your toes. You will be treated differently from early on as you are defined by your sex. How is that lucky? Maybe luck vanishes in that moment of defining and knowing which sex the child is. The situation of being born a girl and how that effects your life. You can be mistreated, killed, abandoned, rejected only for this reason. We know this. Girl is a burden, also for the girl herself her sex is a burden.
So what is the lucky part? When we are loved as we are, since we are not able to impact on how we get to be born. It is out of our hands. Therefore it is huge wrongdoing to place the blame on the child, isn’t it.

Cunt is currency, looks is currency, what else is there than having currency and something to buy?

I can approach this topic by how I have always been viewed by people, commented and stared at. Pushed into a role of female which is highly narrow and limiting, refusing this is irregular and not wanted, to understand power of feminine attraction is awkward, what power, and which one thing one should understand is how to exploit this situation, to see the whole picture over and over again unchanged can be defeating. To me it has been traumatising no less to figure out how trapped we are by visual pleasure instantly and how women do not have power because our thing is to please and via that get attention and be liked, loved, noticed, approved, hired etc. It is sad as hell. By kissing ass and doing as we are told we do not get power, we do not have power, ever.

To be female in a shallow profit driven world and succeed is to accept how one-sided women should be, are desired to be, not try build more dimensions and possibilities. Assumptions and options which repeat the same stay boring and have nothing to do with progress, intellect, human rights and dignity or my line of work when one tries to change the state of things and one’s life, tries to change the expected. My worth as a maker is in the work I do, not on how I look like and what I have under my clothes. To pay attention to my looks when I work is pure sexism and I do not tolerate it, not from women and not from men. I am many times left out because of my gender and looks play an unwanted bizarre role, sexism functions as limiting and exclusionary like picking the fruit to be eaten. I do not play games which sexism is all about and expects to play along. I do not accept my role as all pleaser which is the part of women and rules of this game are set for women. We all are scaled out through and through how attractive we are which tactics is wrong and hurtful in many ways not only for the people but for progress within society.

Attractiveness is subjective and the easy breezy simple way to see and judge people, why on earth is it so? Stereotypes live on as do behavioural patterns, models of thinking. It is far too easy to think and stick on to the view that women who are attractive are stupid, available, weak, deaf, easily led, want certain things, can be manipulated and to overcome this bias they must work harder, look ugly, learn to say no, work harder than those who do not have the burden of looks and sex, burden of sex is the expectation, assumption and the ready-made image which must be met. Yes a burden because whether ugly or beautiful we are judged by it completely and it is waste of time, human resources, energy, unnecessary bullying and repeating of old thinking patterns which do more harm than good. How to be objective and be sure to get accurate results is obviously very difficult task but it is not impossible. It is not enough to be impressed by work done, we must be impressed by character and habitus, to please and like are more important than what has been accomplished. What comes to doing one’s job well, is it a matter of gender and appearance because cock has more valid info and capability than cunt? We live in a corrupt world where to understand laws of corruption pays off. I must grow myself a cock. What do we do to end corruption is not play with it.

In business and in art where you come from, gender and appearance strikingly have big roles still, looks and gender can tell of intelligence and talent usually lacking which correlation to me is pure fascism. That is the most comment sparking thing about me I appear and I am not what you expect me to be, such issues which concern me as a human being are almost solely about my surface from head to toe. Best thing is of course to say so that I can hear that I am fuckable. Oh yes fuckable of course, how else can someone like me be understood and set to one’s place but naked and legs apart. I am trying to be a professional artist but it fails for many to behave as professionals somehow (is there piss in your heads?) who think they are professionals when it comes to gender roles and how women are treated and perceived within the industry. Someone who looks like I do cannot be talented and her looks must be commented because that is the compliment, right. I don’t find it flattering, I know what I look like and I do not push my appearance to be the most important thing in me.

One more thing: when photographing an exhibition, it is more interesting to photograph the artwork than the artist. When I say I don’t like to be photographed, please don’t insist because I mean what I say and I am showing my work not myself. For me this has a huge difference whether you get it or not. I’m not into posing with my art, it is fucking lame.

Surviving or living, survivor or victim. A matter of choosing your outlook based on what happens to you, how to stand up for yourself. Learning of a lifetime.

Nyrkillä tapettava is a Finnish phrase for someone who is small and defenceless and can be killed by punching. It is cruelty in a neat package, the whole being of someone is measured and defined by physical appearance and that person is not a threat at all. It is very telling of culture where size matters, use of violence measures your worth, what one can do with size and by threatening behaviour: habitus is to intimidate, minimise and silence.

The strangest and scariest as it is a surreal repetitious event has been to witness misogyny done and realised by women. How misogyny kind of belongs to the territory of being female that you are hated, despised, suspected and treated like garbage as such especially if you are young, pretty, talented, seem lost, in need of help, scared, have thoughts that challenge existing views, roles and hierarchies. I still seem lost because it is my constant feeling and experience among people where I should know how I should be and live self-evidently but I do as I please. I still look youngish but have looked young and naive as like I was born with it which equals to many someone to abuse. So the weird dilemma of not fitting in is the normalcy how it happens, and I don’t seek to fit in because it is a lie to fit in. I should have to pretend. My looks and gender justify ill-treatment.

Question is why so? Someone who looks fragile is to be beaten down because she deserves it and is an easy subject? Maybe you have got another thing coming. Those who choose the so-called easy subjects surely know what it makes of them and what kind of ethical problem it is to think bullying is a sign of strength and power. This is all about competition and here we do not differ from animals. Logic for many is very straightforward and uncomplicated which in a complicated world is not logical. There is more to everything than what the eye can see and you think is true. Question to be asked is who and what do you stand for, why you do what you do, what motivates you. Often it is hate which cannot be admitted to because it would be admitting to being a hater. This issue is a difficult one to talk about without it sounding asking for empathy (empathy is for the weak and for friends) and being a victim of bullying which the whole not fitting in sets, a place for a weirdo is all about, meaning to be marginalised and set outside is more a rule. For a blonde, thin and childlike such as me which characteristics to many equal mental disability it is to learn self-defence, how people react to you remains unsurprisingly unchanged. And I for example have began to see this existing position more of a strength than weakness. People are surprised when I answer back and do not settle for what I am given, why should I. I am arrogant when I think myself as able.

To be on someone’s side because of their genitals is to understand how gender roles function and believe it, and what they are for, roles and genitals. Be on side of women because they are women and women supporting men because they are men. Do men support women because they are women and therefore worthy of support or do we support people because to support is a human thing to do and all need support, especially mental support, caring. Eh, I don’t know. Maybe people support those who they care for, supporting someone supports also you. Gender works for those who fall into such roles effortlessly and think they are a good thing. It has been obvious solidarity can be nonexistent when safety and balance is threatened. Something new appears. Threat is a curious feeling as is fear. Fear of dramatic change is what keeps traditional roles needed and in part they do have a place.

I kind of have a theory. Have you ever been target of gossip? I call it ill talk because something is very wrong in that situation. I have been talked about all my life in a bad sense. To repeat all could be made into a crystal idea: there is something in this person that pushes buttons instantly, is out of ordinary. It is about the way one looks, what one does, how one does it and how one is in a world and how well one fits in. Why  the fitting in is important, so much so that it is compulsive and neurotic? It is a ritual and way of telling there is always something wrong with you and those who talk do not like you until you are crushed or do as they want you to do. Most of gossip is ill and about this problematic nature of humans where safety, acceptability and being similar next to a clone is what does not threaten power and self-worth of tiny minds. This hurtful way of communicating has its plus sides. I have become very good at reading lips, noticing body language, guessing facial expressions and how certain people think. There are no surprises there. Most hurtful it is when women see it their issue to slam other women to leave someone out and stigmatised. Means of finding who mean something and finding one’s place when it is not to be found. My fault? Strangely I am accused. And we are so surprised that she answers and questions us, something that is seen solid and good. Your good is not mine and enough by far because I place my bar high.