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*my vision of a future art is of one that does not make the viewer feel stupid, where stupid viewers might still feel safe.
*my vision of a future art is of one that does not resort to cruelty for its own sake.
*my vision of a future art is of one that does not get too tangled in metaphor.
*my vision of a future art is of one that needn't justify itself as TV doesn't, but without diminishing into schlock.
*my vision of a future art is of one aware that even though the forms change, the same questions remain.
*my vision of a future art is of one that doesn't forget that no matter in what direction you go, people still feel: are hungry, are tired, are bored, feel depressed and elated, and are full of flaws.
*my vision of a future art is of one that doesn't tolerate derisive, mocking, smart-alecry.
*my vision of a future art is of one that knows it needs to justify itself.
*my vision of a future art is of one that does not rely on religion or ideology to justify its methods.
*my vision of a future art is of one that is sensitive to the fragility of beauty.
*my vision of a future art is of one that is always searching for a shape that it knows it will not attain.
*my vision of a future art is of one that is not nostalgic for what it has lost.
*my vision of a future art is of one where the form and means, where technicities are not immediately given precedence over subtlety.
*my vision of a future art is of one that is the product of a climate that recognises once again that good art-making is as rigorous, as demanding, as exacting and as tenuous as the finest science and the most poised dance.
*my vision of a future art is of one that is not always searching for the new, but instead searches to keep the perennial mysteries up-to-date.
*my vision of a future art is of one allowed to be didactic if it needs to be.
*my vision of a future art is of one that knows that art is both a luxury and a necessity.
*my vision of a future art is of one that treasures the riches of silence.
*my vision of a future art is of one that doesn't use race or creed as compensation.
*my vision of a future art is of one that does not feel nervous about not being like another.
*my vision of a future art is one that is somewhat self-justifying.
*my vision of a future art is one that remembers the value that was once given to poetry.
*my vision of a future art is of one that knows how to forget.
Adam Geczy
Melbourne, Nov. 2001
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