[ssf] Art n Activism

[Dan]

By John Jordan - just as some background to art activism discussions 
that will hopefully happen at the 17th meeting:

"The poverty of creativity within the sphere of political activism is 
astonishing, the same old forms are churned out - the mass marches from 
a-to-b, the die-ins, the sit-downs and pickets -new forms of resistance 
rarely emerge.   Yet at the heart of most politically engaged artists 
practices lies a similar poverty, their forms may demonstrate great 
creativity, but the level of actual engagement with the public sphere is 
often lacking.

The activists have the punch but lack the poetry; the artists can build 
the beautiful, but are often disconnected from contexts where real 
social change can take place. Finding this space in-between the poetic 
and the political is never easy, many artists find it difficult to 
engage and embedded themselves in social movements which they perceive 
as dogmatic and lacking creativity and activists often find art 
irrelevant to their campaigns..."

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