I think therefor I am political

Well I would say art is political because it expresses and offers different readings and perceptions of reality, it does defend the qualities of the poetic, of the useless, of the dialogue, of the impossible to say, it enhances the not-said, it disturbs, it can even make one laugh, It strives for participation…

Art asks continuously questions, it is on the reformulation level a production of possibilities on how to be governed in another way. It asks one to position her/himself, in relation to what is reality, It makes one think. Now this is not about propaganda but about the sensible.

It’s not creating rules, it’s not structuring society but it is reflecting aesthetics meaning designing and proposing formally a critical sense.
It is a place in its construction and in it’s sharing for opinion, awareness and consciousness. This is not particularly about the “political” in an explicit way but in an implicit way.

Art practice comes together with a life practice; it defines and designs itself by the specific way it relates autonomously with the world.

If there were the necessity of explicit political content in artwork I would say it is often because there is a necessity to break open some nasty strategies that can’t be put out there without a certain dose of passion and craziness. It is often because other social classes are ready to join a cause that is not visible yet. It is because one gets very hungry.

I mention this because I don’t believe in anything outside of its context. I don’t think it’s interesting to see art as political or not political as a black or white statement. I’m also not so interested in the concept of truth or in boxing it for eternity.

My interest is thought in what does art do in terms of participation and changeability in the present time. What are the strategies that allow its communication and visibility? I’m interested in the visibility of the invisible and how does that interfere and react with the environment.

I also think that in the present time it is extremely difficult to inscribe other ways of looking because there is a global formatting that allows extreme diversity, transformation, flexibility, failure, etc, components that are inherent to art.

May be it is all becoming a big art project based on cynical distance..(ah, ah, ah)... Or what are the artistic possibilities to question the boundaries of what we already know?

So long.
Lx