Bread and Arts

Ideas and reflections on arts and culture

[thefilmstage]

Jean-Luc Godard on the set of his latest film, Goodbye to Language.

Watch the master filmmaker reflect on his legendary career in a recent 45-minute conversation.

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"The middle — that place where professionals do their work in conditions that are neither lavish nor improvised, for a reasonable living wage — is especially vulnerable to collapse because its existence has rarely been recognized in the first place. Nobody would argue against the idea that art has a social value, and yet almost nobody will assert that society therefore has an obligation to protect that value by acknowledging, and compensating, the labor of the people who produce it."

[thememoriesofthelostandfound-de]

Submission #10: Lost

I feel lost the majority of the time. I don’t know how to think, act or feel. It has been this way for almost 30 years. It’s as if i become my surrounding, I am no longer noticed or acknowledged.

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Incontro ideato per il progetto "Extramuseo" da Rossana Buono, docente di Storia dell’arte contemporanea presso l’Università degli studi di Roma "Tor Vergata", sul tema “Modify art”.

Interverranno: Martina Ronca, autrice della tesi "Modify Art"; Piero Vereni, docente di Antropologia culturale presso l'Università "Tor Vergata"; Tiger Orchid, fakir e performer. Con la Modify Art si affrontano le trasformazioni e manipolazioni del corpo (scarificazione, branding, implanting, piercing, fakir show, make up, gender modification…), soggetto ed oggetto di una ridefinizione identitaria che intende la diversità come possibilità, e al contempo vero e proprio territorio di sperimentazione ed opportunità. Protagonista doloroso di pratiche, a volte violente, rivolte generalmente a dichiarare la propria appartenenza socio-culturale e diversità rispetto a un modello comune per proporne uno trasgressivo e provocatorio, il corpo "modified" si lega sempre ad una ridefinizione identitaria, condizione che è al centro anche di sperimentazioni di molti artisti contemporanei come Cindy Sherman, Bruce Nauman, Orlan, Catherine Opie, Franco B, Ali Kazma, Fakir Musafar.

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"If having an effect is important to one’s conception of art practice, then it seems important to have a clearer sense of how transformation might be defined and to cultivate a robust language for articulating why some definitions and measures lead us astray."

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One of the ways that arts and cultural institutions add value is by providing an opportunity for people to come and contribute to a neighborhood’s diversity. So much development of urban neighborhoods is being driven by land values, and it’s causing a demographic shift. So the question is, do we have to allow the shift in demographics to take place as it’s happened in the past, where one group comes in and the other moves out, or can we create opportunities for a kind of staying period for this diverse population?

Rick Lowe, in What Tom Finkelpearl (and Many Others) Made, and Might Make (link)