Brian's piece suggests how we can put aside a definition of art, and validation of creativity, which prioritises idealised blue-sky's creativity (eg: genius) or the utilitarian rhetoric of the creative industries.
In its place we can start to think of creativity as something innate to human activity and experience, as essential and normal. Not a luxury, to be engaged once the practicalities of life are satisfied but recognising that all activity is creative and that our inter-personal relations, the means by which we make ourselves and others, is the most creative activity of all. Such creativity is not even restricted to humans but is shared by all social animals. Some call it play. Others socialisation. I'd like to think of it as art at its best. Best Simon On 10/03/2011 12:26, "Armin Medosch" <[email protected]> wrote: > hi > > I think this post by Brian Holmes adds some interesting perspectives to > this debate > http://brianholmes.wordpress.com/2011/03/04/art-and-the-paradoxical-citizen/ > > > best > armin > > > On Thu, 2011-03-10 at 12:50 +0100, Andreas Maria Jacobs wrote: >> Hi Jaromil et al >> >> Nicely said and exactly what matters >> >> The artificially maintained divide between 'public' and 'private' are the >> lines these conflicts are expressed in >> >> For me as an artist the most horrible reactions towards my works are >> always the misconceptions about its functioning in a social context, for >> that is exactly what not is needed but almost always wanted as a kind of >> socially build in reflex, which is grounded on nothing but make believe >> and cultural determined behavioral attitudes >> >> So my mental exile is based upon a very individual approach towards my own >> production, whereas I intend to build upon a 'common' understanding of >> their workings both 'public' and 'private' >> >> Communistic art, communist art, communal art? >> >> I tend to reorient towards the 'interbellum', form last century, when >> people like Brecht and Weil, Tucholkski, Heartfield, Kokoschka, Eisler etc >> etc were trying to develop exactly that: a common understanding and a >> common, open form of art disconnected from the economical domain of the >> rich and the privileged. >> >> >> >> Andreas Maria Jacobs > > > ______________________________________________ > SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe > Info, archive and help: > http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre > Simon Biggs [email protected] http://www.littlepig.org.uk/ [email protected] http://www.elmcip.net/ http://www.eca.ac.uk/circle/ ______________________________________________ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
