{"id":16146,"date":"2014-07-06T14:42:50","date_gmt":"2014-07-06T14:42:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/art-is-defined-as-alien-to-authentic-culture\/"},"modified":"2014-07-06T14:42:50","modified_gmt":"2014-07-06T14:42:50","slug":"art-is-defined-as-alien-to-authentic-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/art-is-defined-as-alien-to-authentic-culture\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Art is defined as alien to \u201cauthentic\u201d culture, since it does not explicitly express and affirm the values that embody the country. In some European countries, art is seen as a heavily subsidized field that steals tax Euros away from \u201cthe hard-working citizen,\u201d similar to unemployment benefits and other \u201cleft-wing hobbies.\u201d On the other hand, art is implicated in a global speculative economy in which it is one more investment option, and in this respect, it is again vulnerable, coming to function as the concrete manifestation of abstract financial forces that weaken national economic sovereignty; an uncommon luxury lacking in both culture and rootedness. And yes, art is indeed part of the problem\u2014how could it be otherwise? Rather than gloss over the issue, one should affirm and exacerbate art\u2019s problematic status, its essential undecidability, which holds the promise of a more productive politicization of contemporary art above and beyond any projects on \u201caesthetics and politics\u201d or \u201cart and activism\u201d.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'><strong>Paul Chan<\/strong> and <strong>Sven Lutticken<\/strong> in <a href=\"http:\/\/e-flux.com\/journal\/view\/206\"><em><strong>Idiot Wind: On the Rise of Right-Wing Populism in the US and Europe, and What It Means for Contemporary Art<\/strong><\/em><\/a>. \u2014 \u00a0via\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/hydeordie.com\/\">hydeordie<\/a>: \u201cThe whole thing is really worth a read. It\u2019s easy to get lost in the role local and national politics play in our own lives and to become distracted and realize that this is a much larger issue than just America.\u201d (via <a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/artquotesforapplication.tumblr.com\/\">artquotesforapplication<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Art is defined as alien to \u201cauthentic\u201d culture, since it does not explicitly express and affirm the values that embody the country. In some European countries, art is seen as a heavily subsidized field that steals tax Euros away from \u201cthe hard-working citizen,\u201d similar to unemployment benefits and other \u201cleft-wing hobbies.\u201d On the other hand, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-words","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-4cq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}