But “art” is not art. “Art” is politics that has created new styles of communication.
– Kunst und Revolution, Günter Brus, Otto Mühl, 1986
image: Günter Brus, Wiener Spaziergang, 1965/1989. Courtesy of Austrian Cultural Forum.
Last week we came to the Austrian Culture Center for “Artists as Trouble Makers” and saw especially the work of Günter Brus. As one amonst those artists forced to exile, his work contained aspects that are seen as controversial and out of ones comfort zone but that seems to pleasantly add the absurdity into the art.
ideas for exploration (for an op-ed blog article)
* the ecology for public interactive art in a city- in this case, New York
Ecology(from Greek oîkos, “house; study of) is the scientific study of life and the interaction between organisms and their natural enviroment.
Interactivity is similar to the degree of responsiveness.
Public Interactive art projects create the future of a city.
* Love Joys - Artists in exile
readings:
On Acting and Not-acting ,by Michael Kirby
Passing – Nyong’o
artists:
Vallie Export
Gunter Brus
