{"id":872,"date":"2015-02-13T20:57:45","date_gmt":"2015-02-14T03:57:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/?p=872"},"modified":"2015-02-13T21:01:38","modified_gmt":"2015-02-14T04:01:38","slug":"notes-on-the-fear-of-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/2015\/02\/13\/notes-on-the-fear-of-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Notes on “The Fear of Art”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jack Persekian – Caravaggio collaged with contemporary Palestinian reality.<\/p><\/div>\n

Today, February 13th 2015, I attended the last two sessions of the New Schools “The Fear of Art” two-day conference. I have a few notes from the last panel.<\/p>\n

Jeffrey Deitch: on mural of coffins with dollars by Blu\u2026 I\u2019m sure that Jeffrey is familiar with the term \u201cparachute artist\u201d\u2026 why in this day and age would a museum and an artist create public work ignorant of the immediate community? It seems so unprofessional, disrespectful, naive, ignorant\u2026 inform oneself before creating a work, particularly a work destined for the public space. Some veterans protested against the white washing of the wall. They believed in what the mural portrayed – the union of money and war.<\/p>\n

In the end a problematic image that created public outcry was short lived\u2026 It sounds like our mass media cycle – is this as art should function or the type of work and outcome that a museum desires? Deitch leaves it up to the artist, and that seems too easy. It is the makings for a lot of bad art getting a good run. What about the question of the maturity of the artist. By maturity, I mean an artist undertaking the responsibility to inform oneself, to talk with people, to do research and consider the nuances of a neat visual idea. If an artist informs herself and then proceeds with the work, great, but if an artist runs with a strong visual idea without carefully considering the meaning from various perspectives\u2026 then should this type of work be supported? Can research lead to self-sensorship? <\/p>\n

Boris Groys: at museums pray to religious artifacts\u2026 always imagine what an ancient Egyptian or Greek or Aztec would feel or think if visiting a contemporary museum with these artifacts.
\nTo offend people is a good thing to do because it provokes a reaction, it makes clear the attitude, it puts things on the table.<\/p>\n

Lisa Phillips: the strongest art is disrespectful, problematic, because it\u2019s a new way of seeing, a way of seeing that is disruptive and exists before entering the mainstream and being accepted.<\/p>\n

Jack Persekian: Installation in preparation for the Pope\u2019s visit to Palestine, images that merged Baroque art with current life of Palestinian\u2019s\u2026 what we think of the Holy Land and what it means to live in the location\u2026 Carvaggio – Thomas asked to touch Jesus\u2019s wounds – switched to identity card used to scan the finger print of Palestinian\u2019s. The work turned out to be too confrontational to be presented to the pope.<\/p>\n

Jack Persekian – Baroque painting collaged with current Palestinian reality<\/p><\/div>\n

Jack Persekian – Baroque painting collaged with current Palestinian reality<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today, February 13th 2015, I attended the last two sessions of the New Schools “The Fear of Art” two-day conference. I have a few notes from the last panel. Jeffrey Deitch: on mural of coffins with dollars by Blu\u2026 I\u2019m sure that Jeffrey is familiar with the term \u201cparachute artist\u201d\u2026 why in this day and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,3,8],"tags":[662,661,660,663,659],"class_list":["post-872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-and-activism","category-fine_arts","category-public_art","tag-boris-groys","tag-jack-persekian","tag-jeffrey-deitch","tag-lisa-phillips","tag-the-fear-of-art"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=872"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":875,"href":"https:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872\/revisions\/875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}