RE: Art is a Threat
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While I'm not a fan of art that's made purely for shock value (And there's such an abundance of that nowadays), I do agree with your point here. Of course. I don't think you need to set out expressly to make someone uncomfortable, just to be honest without the fear of making someone uncomfortable.
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But if everything can be art and everyone an artist, just to express themselves, doing art just to make someone else uncomfortable isn't art anyway? Even drawing the line of what art is or is not is an expression of someone's thinking about art. And if I express this idea in some creative way, the choice of what art is becomes the art expression itself.
Maybe it's just the creative process of creating something that creates art, regardless the purpose.
A lot of people say art is about the journey, not the final product.
But art doesnt have to be about the friends yoy made along the way.
It can be about the empires that collapse, or the revolutions it ends.
The "purpose" of art is a good topic that I think I might write about at some point, and to see if it is "purposeful".
The uncomfortable feeling, I feel, is something that emerges when you manage to reveal something that may or may not be in plain sight. It may not make a specific individual uncomfortable, but perhaps a group. They may not say it makes them uncomfortable, but something changes in their behaviour.
It is hard to articulate what I am feeling.
Not like the political cartoons I reference, but more like the feeling when you stub your toe on furniture and frankly don't want to look at the (totally deformed and bloody, ruined) foot that remains in your sock. When in reality, it'll be fine.
I've seen Halestorm live twice. Had their roadie chase me and my wife down to give us a guitar pick because we kept missing them. We were the one ones in the front row not filming the whole show.
Was great. For us. Not so much for the phone warriors.
Ah okay, yes, I see now a little better what you meant. Thank you for clarifying that, and yes, I love that unease and look for it both in my own writing and while reading. Things that "hit the spot" in terms of nasty, unpleasant, or just taboo truths. That's worth interacting with.
That Halestorm story is so freaking cool! Frankly, I've yet to understand people who do this. My phone is typically off-limits to me during live shows - what is the point? Film it for yourself? Are you actually going to sit down and rewatch it? Doubtful if you didn't the first time. For someone else? Why the hell aren't they there?
Was just listening to the new album they dropped - pretty damn cool. Lzzy is one of my favorite musicians - and what great showmanship they all have. Saw them open for Alter Bridge a few years back, half the set (in length) and not the headliner ofc, yet they blew the house away and turned into the highlight of the evening. Highly tempted to find somewhere to catch them on tour again this fall, I will admit :)
Ah, like the selective definitions of war crimes that we've all been disgusted by. :)
You handled one such individual brilliantly in your comments section. Way more courageous than I!
Thank you!
I think** at times** art must function to create discomfort - at times. Shock can nudge us away from ennui, challenge social norms, defy, resist. 'Purely' shock value isn't complex, is it? It lacks nuance. 'I feel sick - but what is the point?'
Ah, b grade slasher flicks masquerading as comedy :p
Okay so zombie films are art imo....
Did you not subscribe to Duchamp? If I proclaim myself an artist, I can elevate anything to Art!