[iDC] Art and Politics
saul ostrow
sostrow at gate.cia.edu
Fri Dec 30 10:57:17 EST 2005
Might it not at this point be useful to begin to distinguish between
what is mean by such terms as political culture, cultural production
in genereal, political activism and at the same time identify the
networks of discourse and values (standards and criteria) each of these
represent, replicate and circulate
I make this suggestion becauseagain we have slid into an area in which
the meta-language we use leads to assume a range of humanist
commonality (passing as the political) and secondly because the
anecdotal is always seductive.
As you know while I have interest in issue oriented work in support of
a community or cause - I'm much more interested in how these normalize
the value system that at present constitutes resistance and therefore
become prescriptive both in form and content - beyond the institutional
no one has actually addressed the ideological differences within the
"work" of these artists .no Is the only difference that of site?
Saul Ostrow
Saul Ostrow
Dean,
Visual Arts and Technologies Environment
Chair of Painting
The Cleveland Institute of Art
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