“Art is politics.
It is political as opposed to politics as management (ie. of state), a
profession, a power play, manipulation or propaganda. As a matter of existence,
art aims at the political as the ultimate means of emancipation, absolute
freedom from commodification, if such is still possible. Art is a critical
necessity as long as it fights being a part of the spectacle, as it aims to
turn the spectacle upside down, as it exposes the 'culture industry.'
The crisis of art and with it the artist in the 'center' (West) stems from the
impossibility of politics as such, within the captured psyche of the consumer
culture. Political correctness without the political agenda, or art as
expression of the ethnic and sexual self is bound to be neutralized through the
all encompassing spectacle”
THEODOR
ADORNO
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DADA was an art movement begun in 1916 in Zurich,
Germany at the Cabaret Voltaire run by German writer Hugo Ball, and in New York
City at a gallery named 291 with artists Marcel Duchamp and Picabia. It
included painting, sculpture, poetry, literature, and noise-music. The name
referred to a movement of anti-art or non-art. It was the pursuit of art in
new, abstract, and often challenging and absurd forms, an expression of the
inner spirit of the artist as opposed to the observation of nature. Dadaists
rejected the mechanization of the machine world and pursued the natural
emotions, the intuitive, and the irrational. At its best it was a return to
abstract spirituality in art.
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