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Repository 209: This is Not a Gun | Smart and Urgent Work by Cara Levine
“The world is violent and mercurial – it will have its way with you. We are saved only by love – love for each other and the love that we pour into the art we feel compelled to share: being a parent; being a writer; being a painter; being a friend. We live in a perpetually burning building, and what we must save from it, all the time, is love.” – Tennessee Williams Everyday I write on the top of…
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Repository 83: Refusal, the Political and Anti-Participation in Art
“Art is not beauty or novelty; art is effectiveness and disruption.” – León Ferrari A political system is all about the framework and defined methods of control. Political artists are all about breaking out of this control. By definition they are anti-system, anti-method, anti-participation, and in a word bold. I’ve always admired the urgency of some truly political artists, whose work demands attention given their personal history with a given politic that they are anxious to break down. One of…
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