What did you mean? What was that?

 

Taiteen itseisarvo on eristää taide.

Ymmärrän itseisarvon niin että taide on arvokas teko tekijälleen taiteena. Tehdyn taiteen arvostus taiteena luo tekijälle ja teokselle arvoa. On yhteiskunnasta kiinni millainen taiteen arvo on hyväksyttävää, tarpeellista ja arvokasta ja mihin taiteen arvostus perustuu: mitä taiteelta haluamme määrittää taiteen arvon.  Tekijä, joka ryhtyy taiteilijaksi ajattelee tekevänsä taidetta. Hän tietää mitä taide on, mitä taiteelta haluaa, mitä taiteensa haluaa saavan aikaan eli miksi sitä tekee, on valinnut tekemisensä ajatuksena ja ryhtynyt toimeen. Teos joka on olemassa, jota voi katsella, esineenä ja esityksenä. Taide on itseisarvona on arvollinen, arvokas itsenään henkisenä tuotteena tekijöille ja katsojille ilman taloudellista tai muuta ulkopuolista arvoa. Tämä on tietysti ideaali ja taiteen totuus taiteen kuplassa. Taiteella on aina taloudellinen arvo, mikä on myös taiteen painolasti. Toinen painolasti on arvottaminen korkeaan ja matalaan taiteeseen eli arvokkaaseen ja vähemmän arvokkaaseen. Taide yleisesti toimii kokemuksena, elämyksenä, jonka voi omistaa, sanoa  ja ajatella nähneensä, tehneensä, luoneensa, osanneensa ja iloinneensa siitä. Taiteen tekeminen, minkä tahansa taiteen tekeminen on erikoisosaamista, joka vaatii taitoa, kykyä ajatella, halua ymmärtää ja herkkyyttä. Siis herkkyyttä. Mitä se sitten lieneekin. Taiteen tekeminen ammattilaisena vaikka puhutaan herkkyydestä ja hauraudesta vaatii päinvastaista. Asenteiden painolasti on pääasiassa negatiivinen, josta voi päätellä, ettei edes taiteen sisällä taiteilija saa arvostusta taiteilijana sinällään. Arvostus vaatii jotakin ulkoista, joka on muuta kuin pelkkä taiteentekeminen.

Että sanotaan tämä on taidetta on luoda taideteos. Teos sijoittuu. Teoksen olemassaolo vaatii katsojan. Taideteos yhteiskunnallisessa kontekstissa tarkoittaa asiaa, jonka ymmärrämme taiteena, mutta jota myös emme ymmärrä yhtenä ja samana. Teos on jokaiselle erilainen. Teos, jonka arvoa alamme mielissämme ja kokemuksena arvioimaan. Mitä teos antaa, mikä on teoksen kyky keskustella katsojansa kanssa, kuinka se resonoi, saa vastakaikua ja jatkuu puheena.

Tarkoitukseni ei ole ylevöittää taidetta, päinvastoin. Ylevöittämisellä ja taiteen itseisarvosta puhumisella luomme taidemarkkinat, joka on maailmanlaajuinen miljardibisnes. Luomme ylellisyyttä ja businessta, jota voidaan kutsua kauneudeksi, elämän lisäarvoksi pienelle osalle ihmisistä joilla on siihen varaa. Samaa ylevöittämistä tekevät museot ja galleriat, jotka eristävät taiteen ja pitävät taiteen itseisarvon arvossaan ja erillään. Pääsymaksut ja taiteen erikoislaatu ylellisyytenä tekevät sitä missä olemme nyt: taide ei kiinnosta, ei puhuttele, ei tavoita, eikä ole saavutettavissa mahdollisimman monelle edes ohi kävellessä. Taide pysyy poterossaan sen yläluokkaisuuden vuoksi, koska se pyrkii yläluokkaisuuteen, jossa tietynlaisella näyttäytymisellä ja näyttämisellä on tärkeä sija. Luokittelu ja halveksunta on osa taiteen maailmaa, joten hyljeksintä ja haluttomuus ymmärtää ja edes pyrkiä tuohon maailmaan on ymmärrettävää. Minäkään en siihen halua. Taide ei ole niin laajassa käytössä yhteiskunnassa kuin sen pitäisi olla. Taide ei ole arkipäivää.

Taiteen tekeminen lähiöissä, lasten ja nuorten kannustaminen taiteen tekemiseen on askel siihen suuntaan, mitä taiteen on tarkoitus olla ja tehdä. Itse olen kokenut taiteen tärkeimmäksi osaksi juuri tekemisen prosessin. Olen myös kaivannut taidetta, joka on osa arkkitehtuuria, en monumentteja ja suuria nimiä. Kun ja jos taideteos on ainoastaan ylellisyysesine mikään ei muutu. Noihin esineisiin suurimmalla osalla ei ole varaa. Siinä on yksi taiteen tehtävä, ylevöittää ne, joilla on taloudelliset resurssit itsensä ylevöittämiseen.

Name revolution, name revolutionist, name your enemy, name what you fight for

It is interesting what Marxism has become to mean and how delusional culture of calling and naming in the name of power is. Putting down, dragging into dirt. Which is dirt and which is something higher is due to I’m not sure what. Or maybe it has got to do with creating public opinion, to create public to have fear. Directing and manipulating of opinion of the most, who are not interested, there is some knowledge that leads the crowds. Knowledge of political map rises from press: what is written and how critical and neutral media can, is able and will be. So far skepticism towards media is more than understandable and not without ground. Suspicion over what is being told is more than a recommendation. There are motives to write other than giving unbiased information. Motives other than giving education other than freedom of speech and being neutral informant. As far as I am concerned there is no freedom of speech as long press is owned by huge media corporations. As long they obey laws of finance and what is worthy of writing about is measured in money. What and who is being silenced? Marxism shows in strange light in this fight. In the light of neo-liberal profit-making. What kind of knowledge public has on political ideologies?

http://www.newstatesman.com/uk-politics/2009/08/mehdi-hasan-bbc-wing-bias-corporation

As amazing as it sounds and as much loath Communism and anything related to Marxism has had, because of Marx’s ideas, Socialism works its way, finds new followers and making strong opposition within and outside capitalist institutions. Historical almost relic picture, but living concepts and ideologies kept alive systematically because there is need to survive, there is need for rebellion still. Needless to ask why. Do ideologies such as Marxism and Communism have something to contribute and to give to our contemporary time other than division between workers and rulers of finance world? Something which is lacking is empathy and compassion, still. What could be there that is universal and timeless? There is a strong tendency in most rebellions and revolutions to have been connected to labour movements, Communism, Marxism, Socialism and have had to do with making conditions of living better for working people. To remove oppression and slavery has been agenda number one.

Distant Marxism, distant revolution, far away portrait of a thinker who triggered such thorough mental, social, cultural and physical change  that it seems almost impossible to think world of ideas without Karl Marx.

within my grasp

Emotions as we and why do we like to abstain and refrain our emotions into illness. Having an order of emotions, taking them for granted and as inferior phenomenon which reason must rule and guide. An order which many of us seem to live by is not to, a no, a ban, prohibition of. What do we let out and what we do not because we are not allowed, because it is not proper, we do not dare? It is an interesting topic, because our emotional refusal, which could be called a plug that is not wished to be pulled, a tag, pivot behind a door, stepping stone, something nonverbal, unspoken inner banner which is there, but how far and can you see it. Inner banner, a flag of your own, what is it like?
 
Revolution is an emotional event. It is a moment of not wanting to have that plug anymore. Not wanting to be dictated, controlled over, told what to say, do, be like and feel.
It is feminine to feel, to show emotions, to cry, to laugh, be insecure, admit sensing. Crying is a powerful outburst with tears and facial expressions. Crying is probably the most controlled emotional and physical act, please don’t cry, I would have to react to your tears. 

irrational behavior of those who oppose, lunacy, mental. To declare mental

Exstacy of love, 2000

Left behind/ Taakse jätetty 2012

The Red Song Book 1932 The Socialist Rebel Song Book 1934 Negro Songs of Protest 1936 Dorian Lynskey, History of protest songs, 33 revolutions per minute, 2010

What kind of an impact struggles of working-class have had to this day we live now, and how much are our struggles similar to those fought, different than those going on today that are, were fought, are being fought. Paycheck, length of the working day, working conditions, safety issues, holidays, paternity and maternity leaves, kindergartens, schooling for children of working-class families, inexpensive and decent housing, democratic institutions, inexpensive healthcare, equal rights for everyone to live a good life, possibilities to study and work. Welfare that offers chances to grab life instead of losing it. Those who cannot take care of themselves are taken care of. It is a long list of benefits that must be taken into consideration to make a sustainable and equal welfare state.

”Work and pray, live on hay/ You’ll get pie in the sky when you die” The Preacher and The Slave, 1911
”Heaven above, and ours Hell right here ,I ain’t a Communist necessarily, but I’ve been in the red all my life.”

Political message into the arena of entertainment, books I imagine in my hand, small, worn out with yellowish smelly pages, the ongoing rebel, ongoing inspiration of coal miners, their wives, copper miners, their wives, textile workers, their husbands, Me inspired by Woody Guthrie, This Land Is your Land, 1944. ”I am out to sing songs that will prove to you that this is your world..that make you take pride in yourself and your work” Woody Guthrie’s mission statement which he read on the radio 1944 in his weekly show on New York’s WNEW.

This is a kind of Poem, this is a kind of scribbles, I end up seeing the same thing, a pattern, but I cannot put my finger on it 

 ”Failed to quicken the pulse, Ella May Wiggins who was shot dead during the Gastonia textile strike 1929, hero of the left. Message belonged to whoever stuck a flag on it. And increasingly the flag was red.” ”common man full of bad luck and violent ends.”Dorian Lynskey, History of protest songs, 33 revolutions per minute, 2010

Violent beginnings, startling start, I took these words from this book I found added them here next to my words, I gave words back to you, you do what you can with them.

What has happened to a worker before? What happens to a worker now?

Is he/she called a worker anymore, the proletarian, or is it employee, staff, labourer. We have short history of couple of industrial revolutions in a row during which many other kinds of revolutions have taken place. Feminist movement, sexual revolution, contraception, women’s right to go to work and have a career. We are still fighting for that right on many levels. But all in all women’s rights have taken big steps forwards globally, lots is still to be done.

It’s not journey’s end, it begins over and over again.

It is a cry in anger and frustration. Saddened by the ways of ours against nature, against anything that is good. How to examine and evaluate good, define it or forget it. To seek only good can also end up being bad. Because we evaluate good with our eyes and how we feel. We are seekers of pleasure. It is odd how behavior of ours can be justified by nature. It is natural for woman to be weak and man to be strong. Still nature comes second in any regard. Interests of ours do not benefit those who cannot speak for themselves. We are destroyers leaving storms and deserts behind for future generations. Dry and decayed heads in tanks, stuck onto tanks, stuck in our unconsciousness, stuck to our horror.

It makes me wonder how those divisions get made and who makes them? There are things that attract women and things that attract men. Then there are people who like to keep it that way in obedience to the tradition of differences between sexes. It is natural. How natural are we? My organic body is natural, it decays, gets infected, clearly things happen to it that are nature’s ways not mine. Is my behavior natural? Is my gender natural, is it what I do for living natural? Natural is obvious, naturally, clearly, obviously. Self-evident, inescapable. We try to protect ourselves from it, we must, otherwise we would die. Our race would perish without fear of death, without pain and suffering. It is my nature to keep myself alive as well as I can. That is my healthy nature, my health, my true nature. Natural is something non-manipulated. Clean from so-called intelligent and conscious interferences to nature’s processes. Unhealthy is a will to die, in this context unnatural, nature grows back after devastation. Picture of hey pushing through asphalt. It grows where sun shines, looking for light, looking for water. To find that nature in myself is hope. That is to be part of nature. To learn from it, to grow with it. Defining natural in human context is kinky.

How to express nature, does it have to be expressed, will it find its way like hey?

Black Sabbath was flying stoned – Why not play it backwards.

Color is black. What is with your hair?
Eat hamburgers and drink beer like ordinary people. How ordinary.. Death by drunken asphyxiation, death by misadventure, death by boredom, death by Split Beaver. Well I never. Setting these fucking pyro things at seven gates of Hell. We were rehearsing because of red clouds of smoke.
Writing Satan’s love songs to have a breakthrough, we were really screwed.
Women wanted to do certain things with us which had never happened before.
No rest for the wicked. Characters immortalized in denim and leather. Man who is a lie will not do. 

Inspiring moment is when a nobody and just anybody begins. The thought of it is a light, the hunger and desire.