((This was.. a nightmare to read. Like this is so much text to digest, and I'm not good at reading pdfs like this QAQ Teacher why you do this to me. I have adhd lady you gotta make this stuff read along friendly.))
In a short written response including 4+ quotes from the readings by Dr. Maura Reilly answer the following questions: What is Curatorial Activism? What can we do to improve art and art history? What do you envision for the future of art?
Post your answer including quotes from the readings to the blog.
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Quotes:
“...On investigating price differentials, and sex–race ratios in galleries, within thematic and national exhibitions, and in the press, the numbers demonstrate that the fight for equality is far from over...”
This is unfortunately really true. As far as we have come, we are no where close to getting the equality we want to achieve. And the only reason we are stuck where we are is because of the people in charge who don't believe that. We'd have so much more progression if everyone could just agree about this sort of progression.
"...What’s even more disturbing is that these mainstream master narratives of
art, in which large constituencies of people are ghettoised and excluded from
the big-white-boy narrative, are presented as natural, as common sense, and
these discriminatory practices are rarely challenged..."
It is extremely unfair that this has been normalized to us, and it has a lot to do with white supremacy and the normalizing of this stuff that we are fed at a young age, so by the time we're old enough to have thought, we don't think about it very much. It is awful what we have to deal with this now and people just look over it like it's nothing. Not saying white art doesn't deserve to be shown, but more diversity must be welcomed by society in order to bring forth proper change and challenge to these things.
"...So, again, what can we do? Instead of being disheartened by the sad reality, it
is perhaps more productive to be proactively antithetical: to misbehave, to talk
back, while dedicating ourselves to disrupting the hegemonic discourse from
within by showing the gaps in representation.."
I feel this is very hopeful! If the activism was kept sad and hopeless, nobody would act. They'd just deal with hopelessness and nothing would change. People would just be sad, but the encouragement to not be disheartened, and there is a way to act and change this reality is a real breath of fresh air. And she is right, misbehaving, splashing the water, push against the tide, the only change has ever come is by pushing for it to happen. And with enough force, change shall happen.
"Yet when I asked these same Aussies if they’d heard of the 1991 incident in Los Angeles where African-American Rodney King was nearly beaten to death by police, every one of them had. Why was this? Why were they knowledgeable about racially-motivated violence in a country on the other side of the world, yet unaware of what was happening in their own backyard?"
Because it is better to show the plight of places outward rather than what is happening on the inside. The more outrage people focus on something external, the more they won't notice what is happening in their own place. A fucked way of attempting to distract the narrative away and keep their citizens ignorant. It's especially easy to do with todays media.
What is Curatorial Activism? What can we do to improve art and art history? What do you envision for the future of art?
Curatorial Activism is the gathering of art from diverse people and bringing it together to help normalize it in the art world, and show it to the public so it's more exposed to people rather than mixed in with more mainstream artists. What I believe we can do to improve art and it's history is to let go of the stigma of what makes something art and show more ways art has actually helped in more than just entertainment. Let people develop their own interesting art and stop restricting artists to a set form of skills, and allow them to express they interpret art concepts and how they create them. Show how breaking the rules of art is how it has managed to evolve from simple realism, which is not a bad form of art. What I envision is an embrace of different arts in their respective places. Perhaps quilts that appear like paintings can be seen in museums, or the weird stigma of animations being only for kids and people missing the messages they try to push.
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Quotes:
“...On investigating price differentials, and sex–race ratios in galleries, within thematic and national exhibitions, and in the press, the numbers demonstrate that the fight for equality is far from over...”
This is unfortunately really true. As far as we have come, we are no where close to getting the equality we want to achieve. And the only reason we are stuck where we are is because of the people in charge who don't believe that. We'd have so much more progression if everyone could just agree about this sort of progression.
"...What’s even more disturbing is that these mainstream master narratives of
art, in which large constituencies of people are ghettoised and excluded from
the big-white-boy narrative, are presented as natural, as common sense, and
these discriminatory practices are rarely challenged..."
It is extremely unfair that this has been normalized to us, and it has a lot to do with white supremacy and the normalizing of this stuff that we are fed at a young age, so by the time we're old enough to have thought, we don't think about it very much. It is awful what we have to deal with this now and people just look over it like it's nothing. Not saying white art doesn't deserve to be shown, but more diversity must be welcomed by society in order to bring forth proper change and challenge to these things.
"...So, again, what can we do? Instead of being disheartened by the sad reality, it
is perhaps more productive to be proactively antithetical: to misbehave, to talk
back, while dedicating ourselves to disrupting the hegemonic discourse from
within by showing the gaps in representation.."
I feel this is very hopeful! If the activism was kept sad and hopeless, nobody would act. They'd just deal with hopelessness and nothing would change. People would just be sad, but the encouragement to not be disheartened, and there is a way to act and change this reality is a real breath of fresh air. And she is right, misbehaving, splashing the water, push against the tide, the only change has ever come is by pushing for it to happen. And with enough force, change shall happen.
"Yet when I asked these same Aussies if they’d heard of the 1991 incident in Los Angeles where African-American Rodney King was nearly beaten to death by police, every one of them had. Why was this? Why were they knowledgeable about racially-motivated violence in a country on the other side of the world, yet unaware of what was happening in their own backyard?"
Because it is better to show the plight of places outward rather than what is happening on the inside. The more outrage people focus on something external, the more they won't notice what is happening in their own place. A fucked way of attempting to distract the narrative away and keep their citizens ignorant. It's especially easy to do with todays media.
What is Curatorial Activism? What can we do to improve art and art history? What do you envision for the future of art?
Curatorial Activism is the gathering of art from diverse people and bringing it together to help normalize it in the art world, and show it to the public so it's more exposed to people rather than mixed in with more mainstream artists. What I believe we can do to improve art and it's history is to let go of the stigma of what makes something art and show more ways art has actually helped in more than just entertainment. Let people develop their own interesting art and stop restricting artists to a set form of skills, and allow them to express they interpret art concepts and how they create them. Show how breaking the rules of art is how it has managed to evolve from simple realism, which is not a bad form of art. What I envision is an embrace of different arts in their respective places. Perhaps quilts that appear like paintings can be seen in museums, or the weird stigma of animations being only for kids and people missing the messages they try to push.
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