Monday, January 26, 2009

3 Alternative Statement

What does it mean to develop a creative practice that challenges and critiques the systems that perpetuates dehumanization?
What are the structures that perpetuate dehumanization?
What are the strategies and tactics that directly challenge and critique dehumanization while presenting alternatives?
What does it mean to develop a creative practice that re-humanizes?
What would “art” look if there were no dehumanization?
What would it take for creative practices to function as an agent of re-humanization?
What art would be made if there were no war?
What art would I make if I did not go to Iraq?
What brings people together?
What role does creativity play in that?
What is narrative?
What is meaning?
What does it mean for creative practices to be a link between humanity and meaning?
What is beauty if it is not humanity?
What is trauma?
What are the ways art can order trauma?
What does it mean to behold the sublime?
Is like beholding life? Or love? Or humanity?
What is memory?
What creates memory?
What is freedom?
What does freedom have to do with art?
What does freedom have to do with expression?
In what way does expression communicate humanity?
What is the function of art?
Does it really help?
What does it even mean to help?
What are the ways creative work can unite with the oppressed?
What are the ways creative work can be controlled by the oppressed?
What would the world be like if only the oppressed could tell stories?
What does it take for us humans to value another human?
What does it mean to feel the pain of others?
What does it mean to share the joy of others?
What ways does all this perpetuate the same constructs that got us to this point in history?
What are the ways to destroy history?
What are the ways to destroy oppression?
Does that have anything to do with academia?
What does it mean to be an intellectual and conversely say fuck off to institutions?
What does it mean to say fuck off and fuck you?
What does it take for the world to change?
What is the military?
What are the myths of dehumanization and the military?
What are the myths of art?
What are the myths that I am perpetuating?
What are the ways to be free and share freedom and love?

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