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Isn't the task of art - in a very broad and simple way - to make
visible what is not yet visible or can't be visible at all? Therefore,
the only way to conceive of a yet unknown art would be to imagine
an art which is radically engaged with policy and societal life.
An art which intervenes and - maybe - would play a part in a movement,
a cultural-political movement, in opposition to the hegemonic mainstream
we are facing today. An art movement as cultural work and a self-understanding
of the artist as critical cultural worker.
I would embrace the idea of an art which doesn´t see itself
as something different from the rest of society but posits itself
in the center of culture, theory and politics. Culture (and especially
art) has undergone a radical shift in terms of political and societal
functions. In policy, culture is more and more seen as something
like the social which has to be supported in one way or the other.
Art has been - in this process of >socializing< - emptied,
has become a commercial value which society is willing to buy or
not. Art has radically to think over its position in a capitalistic
society where everything and everybody has to be effective.
Marie-Luise Angerer
Cologne
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