 MODERN MALADY: Autistic Space
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May 13, 2008
On a random excursion in incomparable Soho, New York, I stumbled across a prominent typical gallery. Lovely how it all unfolds in front of my eyes. - Where are you? - I am outside an art gallery. - What do you see? - I see the reflection of my feet on the ground. and I see paintings as well as a man facing the computer. - What kind of paintings? - Art history tells me that was an abstract painting. - How does the art history come to know this? - They had a reference. It is because exactly a hundred years ago someone started doing this in France. - Then ask a bigger history and get to the bottom of this! - Yes, the arrival of abstract painting was natural after the invention of photography, Cezanne, the typewriter, cinema, the radio receiver, the airplane, theory of relativity, neon light. - Then why are they still doing the same shit, as if the world is amnesiac? - I know, who gives a rat's arse to these variations on the theme of artistic inability to innovate. They call this era post-modern. Wrong, it should be called Post-mortem! I see death on every wall, every screen, every speaker. - So, who is representing life? - Life is present in the works of real artists. Children. Those who stay as children, those who make things, break things, who grasp life with both hands. - Who are you? - I am the one who speaks on behalf of human conscience. I have got these ignorant, self-important twats under my thumb. And I own everything my kin has produced so far. - Who is your kin? - Poets whose work are practically fists in the face of mediocrity, idolatry, ignorance. - Who is the man speaking in the video about revolutionary work? - Max Ernst. - Art history would like to call him a painter, though, he is a poet. - What would Max Ernst be doing, if he was your age and lived right now? - Naturally, the revolutionary work. He would not be painting for a show in a fucking gallery. He would show the world how to demean and dislocate galleries, museums, collectors, whose filthy hands hang great works of human spirit on expensive white walls. Today the revolutionary work will reclaim the intellectual property of humanity from these arseholes. - HOw do you separate artistic and autistic in this culture? - Art world is an insanely insular crowd, an autistic crowd. Autism is a brain development disorder that impairs social interaction and communication, and causes restricted and repetitive behavior. Anyone who attaches this much of importance to form is bound to be irrelevant to the progressive mind. The real art have always lived elsewhere, just like culture, right in the thick of life. In character, most of these pests, who call themselves artists are deeply insecure creatures, playing their role of incoherent captivities in their search for truth, meaning, identity, fame, fortune, the glory pledge of New York Times, The Guardian, whoever else that cares to pat them on the back for their incompetent drivel. This art is the artificial medium for the cultivation of bacteria, nothing else, and it's bound to be destroyed when it's insignificance is realised across time. Time will tell, that this is another dark era, like the middle ages. - Is everyone confused? - Everyone is confused because everything has a dual meaning, and only when you see both sides you will attain the awakening. Culture: a) the customs, arts, social institutions, and achievements of a particular nation, people, or other social group. b) The cultivation of bacteria, tissue cells, etc., in an artificial medium containing nutrients : the cells proliferate readily in culture. Here I am in front of an important gallery of all galleries, those cages of unperturbed shrines of self-adoration where crafts of unintelligence are admitted to walls instead of gallows. The tone of my message is uncompromising because it comes from a source as old as mankind. I am the adversary to mankind's amnesia. That's the vocation of a poet. Being the young blood in the continuation of the permanent counter force against these macabre gangsters who fancy themselves as doers and thinkers, tinkering between four walls, my job is to slap them across their face for their unjustifiable arrogance. - What does art mean to you? - Personal ways of making up with your spirit. By no means, I am not against art and crafts. It has always been and it will always be there as a property of humanity. It's going to be difficult to liberate people from what is known as institutional art today. Indeed, it's institutional because it's fully dysfunctional and helpless. - So how come this microscopic community have so much power? - It is because over centuries they have been collecting and buying objects of art. There is an economical tendency to value the past. - Who are the patrons of arts? - Kings, barons, aristocrats of all sorts for centuries since the ancient times have paid for these things. Today, basically, the most inferior people on earth, the ones with a lot of money somehow. And in the 20th century, this system was completely destroyed by the youth, dada and surrealists, my kind. Because by then, art had become the medium of communication across centuries charting the map of the universe, in other words, a visual code to show where human mind has been and would be going to next. You see everything is connected and there are no mysteries in life. - What is your responsibility as the possessor of this map? - To lay it on the table for a great long look for everyone to match, exactly, what they feel in their bone and marrow about these abstract discussions of subjectivity, I like art, I don't, what is art, what is important? - Do you have any doubts in your methods? - The truth is always so blinding near. There are certain things that I have no doubt about. At it's each turn the society will find someone like me waiting.
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