All living things<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nBy Peter Albee<\/p>\n
I will speak in a gross, unspecific manner and I will not mention any names. It is not my place to open a polemic about a world where the political has long ago been replaced by politics, the artists by socialites, art by intrigue and I will not talk about the opportunistic, double-faced cynical sons of sons, of dogs and whores. We are brothers. Our misfortune is cynical, our blood. But no. There are laundry mats for this and we are all children with muddy drawers. I will only speak about the work. The works. What I see, what I hear of. Performance.<\/p>\n
And I can only speak in a gross, unspecific manner because the works that I see, for a few years now, and in which I cannot but macerate, stained pitch black by the oily water of the institutions like any other performance artist of which some of you – or rather, I reckon – most of you, are \u2013<\/p>\n
I can only speak in this manner because the works themselves have become gross and unspecific, indelicate and thick, swollen, hissing, flatulent. It\u2019s colourful, it sings, and it doesn\u2019t think.<\/p>\n
When the spectacle is not spectacular, it is because the artist has decided to close the doors and, bathing in the smell of his own sweat, to unbutton in front of us. We are given the choice between a distasteful intimacy and the flashy colors of a flamboyant vacuum. Product of our time, presumably : it feels like going to vote \u2013 there\u2018s a left, there\u2019s a right, and that’s all there is to space.<\/p>\n
The institutions that pay us will tell you that man is free \u2013 that freedom is a human right \u2013 and the artists, endlessly, will ask the question : what is freedom? – and jump around to illustrate. But the premises are false, the game is rigged, they’re asking the wrong question. Confronting the institutions with their definition of a man would be a good start. We can ask about freedom later, or any of the rights for that matter, when we’re sure that the subject of these rights is not a two-dimensional ectoplasm wearing lipstick. Asking the right questions might mean the disappearance of the institutions as we know them. But so what?<\/p>\n
I could almost say : blessed was the unfortunate time when an artist was criticised for his obscurity, for the incomprehensible density of his work, for choosing the hermetic, the inaccessible. Because at least he was saying one thing : I cannot breath in this air you gave me. I cannot<\/em>. It is not for an elite, it is for nobody that he raised his middle finger in the midst of a crowd of priests and housewives. Today that finger is still raised, we see it everywhere, but there’s a little smiling face drawn on its nail. \u00abJust kidding<\/em>\u00bb has become every performer’s motto. \u201cIt\u2019s only symbolic, now let\u2019s go have dinner<\/em>\u201d is another one. The problem is that the symbolic has been invaded by an army of cultural, radio-controlled automatons. And that the black boxes where we jump restlessly, easing Europe’s consciousness, are painted with the same oil that tanks feed on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Conscientes de que las Noches Salvajes son experiencias in\u00e9ditas que pueden estar abiertas hasta el \u00faltimo momento, hemos solicitado a cada uno de los participantes que nos apunten de manera personal, directa o indirectamente, hac\u00eda la acci\u00f3n que van a realizar. Algo as\u00ed como abrir el apetito a trav\u00e9s de una relaci\u00f3n c\u00f3moda con su […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[210],"tags":[218,225,143,341,211,48,224],"class_list":["post-1123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nits-salvatges","tag-abraham-hurtado","tag-andres-agudelo","tag-la-porta","tag-nits-salvatges","tag-noches-salvajes","tag-performance","tag-vitor-roriz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tea-tron.com\/laporta\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tea-tron.com\/laporta\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tea-tron.com\/laporta\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tea-tron.com\/laporta\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tea-tron.com\/laporta\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1123"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.tea-tron.com\/laporta\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1161,"href":"http:\/\/www.tea-tron.com\/laporta\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1123\/revisions\/1161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tea-tron.com\/laporta\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tea-tron.com\/laporta\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tea-tron.com\/laporta\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}