I'm finishing up a review of David Shields' new book Reality Hunger: A Manifesto, and wanted to take a moment to run this one by you all. Shields writes:
"Everything in life, turned sideways, can look like--can be--art. Art suddenly looks and is more interesting, and life, astonishingly enough, starts to be livable."
Thoughts? Examples?
Granola That Has It All
12 years ago
Well, yeah. Fluxus movement followed this idea too, that the act of living is art. Many artists are questioning and expanding the idea of creation to a vast level. Everything we incorporate ourselves within can be viewed as art. What is dance? Is dance only performed onstage? Do the movements need names? Why isnt the action of popping ones knuckles while sitting at a bus stop a dance performance? These incessant fundemental questions could spread to every aspect of what we consider forms of art. Music, painting, dance, writing- everything. If you consider art to encompass everyones daily lives, constantly weaving, merging, dispersing, affecting and effecting- I think, if willing, each life can feed off of this expanding idea of art and become billions of moments each cherished for their entirety.
ReplyDelete