Well yes it is pretty incongruous without knowing I was referring to a
post on Spectre from Heath Bunting "new british terror laws" in which he
ended with "these new laws are directed against truth tellers,
especially artists" which struck me at the time as rather preposterous (
http://status.irational.org/map_of_terrorism/ )
Though I must say that my feeling for what art is (and a feeling is what
it has reduced to now) is much narrower than that of say, someone who is
an arts university lecturer or arts practitioner making a living,
successful at it, where perhaps theory/concept plays a bigger role than
say, that which the commoner or layperson can readily appreciate.
Don't forget "the pen is mightier than the sword". I'd say terrorism has
more might than the sword, ergo, art has more might than the pen.
Back to the poet whose art has been used against him, after reading of
his arrest for inciting violence (through the poetry, like NWA?) and
throwing a bin at a police man, I wanted to know what he looked like, to
judge him by his cover, and he doesn't seem to exactly be shying away
from looking a little thuggish (if you look past his wiry features). His
hair looked recently shaved, who knows how long he had kept it that way?
Perhaps he should get a PR agent to get some pictures of him into the
media looking more softly or genteel, at least enough in number so as to
counter the pictures taken by crouching photographers which appear to
shroud him with an air of arrogance that may or may not exist.
On 19/12/14 19:35, Joel Weishaus wrote:
Hi James;
It seems incongruous to me to say that "Art (I assume you mean visual
art) is more powerful even than the pen," while using the pen (I assume
you mean writing) to say this.
From at least the Upper Paleolithic, visual art has been a form of
writing. And from the Neolithic on, writing has been a form of visual art.
-Joel
On 12/19/2014 8:57 AM, James Morris wrote:
On 19/12/14 15:49, dave miller wrote:
http://hyperallergic.com/170001/any-art-you-make-can-and-will-be-used-against-you/?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Any+Art+You+Make+Can+and+Will+Be+Used+Against+You&utm_content=Any+Art+You+Make+Can+and+Will+Be+Used+Against+You+CID_df927f6f9b1b6b9dba877bc9d7484a60&utm_source=HyperallergicNewsletter&utm_term=Any%20Art%20You%20Make%20Can%20and%20Will%20Be%20Used%20Against%20You
He's not got enough hair to be a poet IMHO; poets need hair, as we all
know, because hair are receptacles for poetic rays...
It's a scare story to make artists stop making art because, oh yes,
xwxex'xrxex artists are the main targets in the war against terror.
Art is more powerful even than the pen. Which is a shame, because no
artist seems to be making enough of a stand against these infuriating
headlines which are designed to insidiously grind down our spirits.
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