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April
25, 2006
Art that talks
My friend my friend who doesn't want his
name mentioned just sent me a link to his new
video. When I watched
it, I got teary because... (and shit, why
didn't I KNOW this) I finally know stuff. And ART is for SAYING
STUFF. Good art says something. Bad art doesn't SAY ANYTHING.
All my life I've done
art without having much to SAY (capital letters). But with the
work I'm doing for school, and everything I'm thinking and talking
about, I have TONS to say. Not just with poetry, but also with visual
art, audio, video...
I can talk about all these concepts I'm collecting
- the hidden cultural and economic issues about the body, love and
fear, preverbal memories, the brain within the body, the huge clitoris,
the virgin martyrs, cannibalism, embodied spirituality... I want
to talk about all those things with visual art. I have really
interesting things to tell people. This stuff isn't boring, and everyone
relates to it, because everyone has a body. People like hearing
about what I'm doing as much as I do. And I have a whole WORLD to
talk to. I also have a
world of media (isn't that the plural of medium?) at my disposal.
Stuff I've never tried, like digital video.
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