File spoon-archives/avant-garde.archive/avant-garde_1996/96-11-30.184, message 89


Date: Tue, 19 Nov 1996 01:11:03 -0600 (CST)
From: jelly-AT-mail.utexas.edu (Jessica and Sterlings Mail)
Subject: Re: Transnacionala review


>>>>'the movement' requires a (presumably Academy-driven)informational-basis'<<
>>
>>the historians thought the revolution
>>
>>the artist fought the revolution
>
>Now if the artist could only think of the  revolution in history, rather
>than spouting rhetoric while  dreaming of the glory  their dreamed
>revolution will bring them,  then peerhaps the historian will take up the
>sword.  Art makes bad politics.  Politics though sometimes does lead to
>good art.
>
>

 touche

The funny part is I agree with you; "political" artists nauseate me- 

"there was art, and there was helping people"
                                                Garp

Went to a vigil last night, in Austin, in hopes of drawing attention to the
School of the Americas, in GA, where S. American soldiers are trained, only
to return to S. America (often on the CIA payroll) and murder innocent
civilians.  You know what; that wasn't Sterling the "art activist", that was
me, concerned that what goes on there is sick, inhumane, totalitarian
back-handedness, and caniving to boot.

Didn't have a gosh-darned thing to do with art, for me or anyone else; as
for politics; anyone who wastes their time with that psuedo-dialogue
probably would understand rhetoric quite well, so I guess they would make a
FANTASTIC artist.  I fight the revolution with my words, with my $, and, if
necessary, with my life.  Is that enough for you to take up the sword, or
will you stick to the fucking pen...
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